Ectoparasite load increase in reproductively active sand lizards
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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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
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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
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
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