Infection, specificity and host manipulation of Australapatemon sp (Trematoda, Strigeidae) in two sympatric species of leeches (Hirudinea)
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031182017000609" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031182017000609</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031182017000609" target="_blank" >10.1017/S0031182017000609</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Infection, specificity and host manipulation of Australapatemon sp (Trematoda, Strigeidae) in two sympatric species of leeches (Hirudinea)
Original language description
Factors that drive parasite specificity and differences in infection dynamics among alternative host species are important for ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions, but still often poorly known in natural systems. Here, we investigated spatiotemporal dynamics of infection, host susceptibility and parasite-induced changes in host phenotype in a rarely explored host-parasite system, the Australapatemon sp. trematode infecting two sympatric species of freshwater leeches, Erpobdella octoculata and Helobdella stagnalis. We show significant variation in infection abundance between the host species in both space and time. Using experimental infections, we also show that most of this variation likely comes from interspecific differences in exposure rather than susceptibility. Moreover, we demonstrate that the hiding behaviour of E. octoculata, but not that of H. stagnalis, was impaired by the infection irrespective of the parasite abundance. This may increase susceptibility of E. octoculata to predation by the final avian host. We conclude that differences in patterns of infection and in behavioural alterations among alternative sympatric host species may arise in narrow spatial scales, which emphasises the importance of local infection and transmission dynamics for parasite life cycles.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Parasitology
ISSN
0031-1820
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
144
Issue of the periodical within the volume
10
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
1346-1355
UT code for WoS article
000407557900007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85019251881