Host specificity and species jumps in fish-parasite systems

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Host specificity and species jumps in fish-parasite systems
Original language description
Host specificity is one of the key factors governing the distribution and introduction of parasite species, but it is also an important aspect of parasite species diversity. Indeed, parasite taxa only infecting a single host species (or a limited number of them) can reach higher species numbers in a given area (Dobson et al., 2008). Moreover, an understanding of host specificity is crucial in estimates of parasite biodiversity and biogeography. The notion of parasite species being more or less unique to a host species easily contributes to the conclusion that global parasite species richness outnumbers many times the biodiversity of free-living species (Windsor, 1998). Logically, this aspect is also paramount to an accurate assessment of co-extinction, i.e. the extent to which a number of parasite species goes extinct once their host species does (Stork & Lyal, 1993; Koh et al., 2004; Dunn et al., 2009). A varying degree of host specificity also complicates the study of parasite distribution patterns. Indeed, global diversity or distribution gradients for parasites cannot simply be inferred from those of their hosts
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Parasite Diversity and Diversification: Evolutionary Ecology Meets Phylogenetics
ISBN
9781107037656
Number of pages of the result
19
Pages from-to
401-419
Number of pages of the book
488
Publisher name
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication
Neuveden
UT code for WoS chapter
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