Common generalist mites do not transmit from foster parents to brood parasitic chicks

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081766%3A_____%2F21%3A00534893" target="_blank" >RIV/68081766:_____/21:00534893 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jzo.12847" target="_blank" >https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jzo.12847</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12847" target="_blank" >10.1111/jzo.12847</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Common generalist mites do not transmit from foster parents to brood parasitic chicks
Original language description
Interactions between avian brood parasites, their hosts and their parasites provide an ideal model system for studying coevolutionary processes across multiple hierarchical levels. Despite this, how brood parasitism affects the ecology and transmission of bird ectoparasites is not well known. Here, we examined the mite fauna of great reed warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus nests successfully parasitized and unparasitized by the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus to find whether there is vertical transmission of northern fowl mites Ornithonyssus sylviarum, a generalist blood-feeding parasite of birds, through infected nests. Although there was no difference in the prevalence of mites between successfully parasitized and unparasitized nests, the former nests exhibited two times lower mite abundances than the latter nests. Importantly, none of the common cuckoo nestlings examined shortly before fledging carried mites, whereas the great reed warbler nestlings were infested in almost half of the contaminated nests. Thus, our results indicate that, despite their high dispersal abilities, northern fowl mites may be unable to survive or reproduce on the common cuckoo nestlings. Factors that can contribute to the observed patterns are discussed.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-12262S" target="_blank" >GA17-12262S: Reproductive strategies of an obligate brood parasite: host selection, offspring sex allocation and individual success</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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