Sympatry in a nightingale contact zone has no effect on host-specific blood parasite prevalence and lineage diversity

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378041%3A_____%2F24%3A00587368" target="_blank" >RIV/68378041:_____/24:00587368 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/24:10481827 RIV/61989592:15310/24:73628301

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020751924000523?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020751924000523?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2024.03.002" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ijpara.2024.03.002</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Sympatry in a nightingale contact zone has no effect on host-specific blood parasite prevalence and lineage diversity

Original language description

Parasites are a key driving force behind many ecological and evolutionary processes. Prevalence and diversity of parasites, as well as their effects on hosts, are not uniform across host species. As such, the potential parasite spillover between species can significantly influence outcomes of interspecific interactions. We screened two species of Luscinia nightingales for haemosporidian blood parasites (Plasmodium, Leucocytozoon and Haemoproteus) along an approximately 3000 km transect in Europe, incorporating areas of host distant allopatry, close allopatry and sympatry. We found significant differences in infection rates between the two host species, with common nightingales having much lower parasite prevalence than thrush nightingales (36.7% versus 83.8%). This disparity was mostly driven by Haemoproteus prevalence, which was significantly higher in thrush nightingales while common nightingales had a small, but significantly higher, Plasmodium prevalence. Furthermore, we found no effect of proximity to the contact zone on infection rate in either host species. Despite having lower infection prevalence, common nightingales were infected with a significantly higher diversity of parasite lineages than thrush nightingales, and lineage assemblages differed considerably between the two species, even in sympatry. This pattern was mostly driven by the large diversity of comparatively rare lineages, while the most abundant lineages were shared between the two host species. This suggests that, despite the close evolutionary relationships between the two nightingales, there are significant differences in parasite prevalence and diversity, regardless of the distance from the contact zone. This suggests that spillover of haemosporidian blood parasites is unlikely to contribute towards interspecific interactions in this system.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30310 - Parasitology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP506%2F10%2F0716" target="_blank" >GAP506/10/0716: Geographical structuring of avian blood parasite assemblages: the role of host switches, migration, and population structure</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal for Parasitology

ISSN

0020-7519

e-ISSN

1879-0135

Volume of the periodical

54

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

357-366

UT code for WoS article

001252465700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85188084613