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Ectoparasite load increase in reproductively active sand lizards

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985904%3A_____%2F21%3A00542521" target="_blank" >RIV/67985904:_____/21:00542521 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/68081766:_____/21:00542521 RIV/00216224:14310/21:00121249

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://bioone.org/journalArticle/Download?fullDOI=10.25225%2Fjvb.20128" target="_blank" >https://bioone.org/journalArticle/Download?fullDOI=10.25225%2Fjvb.20128</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.25225/jvb.20128" target="_blank" >10.25225/jvb.20128</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Ectoparasite load increase in reproductively active sand lizards

  • Original language description

    Sexual reproduction imposes risks on participating adults through increased probability of injury, predation pressure, or parasite exposure. Evolutionary theory predicts that animals will tolerate parasite infection during reproduction at the expense of increased parasite load, resulting in individual trade-offs between the temporary costs of current reproduction against the long-term evolutionary benefits in the form of life-long production of viable offspring. We tested this hypothesis, predicting that participation in sexual reproduction increases parasite exposure by investigating ectoparasite load on sand lizards (Lacerta agilis). Using generalized additive models to correct for bimodal seasonal dynamics of ectoparasite activity, site and year, we found that ectoparasite load is higher in adults (animals that overwintered at least twice) than in subadults that overwintered once only. Between sexes of adult sand lizards, males had a higher number of blood-sucking ectoparasites than females. Our results indicate that both sexually-motivated extensive locomotion associated with territory defence and mate search in males, and increased energy uptake during gestation in females, contribute to elevated ectoparasite exposure. Increased host mobility associated with increased ectoparasite exposure leads to collateral burden of reproduction on sand lizard populations.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10613 - Zoology

Result continuities

  • Project

  • 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

  • Name of the periodical

    Journal of Vertebrate Biology

  • ISSN

    2694-7684

  • e-ISSN

    2694-7684

  • Volume of the periodical

    70

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    2

  • Country of publishing house

    CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

  • Number of pages

    9

  • Pages from-to

    20128

  • UT code for WoS article

    000640645200002

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database