Bats, Bat Flies, and Fungi: Exploring Uncharted Waters
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-54727-1_21" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-54727-1_21</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54727-1_21" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-54727-1_21</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Bats, Bat Flies, and Fungi: Exploring Uncharted Waters
Original language description
Bats serve as hosts to many lineages of arthropods, of which the blood-sucking bat flies (Nycteribiidae and Streblidae) are the most conspicuous. Bat flies can in turn be parasitized by Laboulbeniales fungi, which are biotrophs of arthropods. This is a second level of parasitism, hyperparasitism, a severely understudied phenomenon. Four genera of Laboulbeniales are known to occur on bat flies, Arthrorhynchus on Nycteribiidae in the Eastern Hemisphere, Dimeromyces on Old World Streblidae, Gloeandromyces on New World Streblidae, and Nycteromyces on Streblidae in both hemispheres. In this chapter, we introduce the different partners of the tripartite interaction and discuss their species diversity, ecology, and patterns of specificity. We cover parasite prevalence of Laboulbeniales fungi on bat flies, climatic effects on parasitism of bat flies, and coevolutionary patterns. One of the most important questions in this tripartite system is whether habitat has an influence on parasitism of bat flies by Laboulbeniales fungi. We hypothesize that habitat disturbance causes parasite prevalence to increase, in line with the “dilution effect.” This can only be resolved based on large, non-biased datasets. To obtain these, we stress the importance of multitrophic field expeditions and international collaborations.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10612 - Mycology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
50 Years of Bat Research: Foundations and New Frontiers
ISBN
978-3-030-54727-1
Number of pages of the result
23
Pages from-to
"349–371"
Number of pages of the book
387
Publisher name
Springer Nature
Place of publication
Švýcarsko
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