Detailed Information on Publication Record
2017
Parasite escape through trophic specialization in a species flock
HABLUTZEL, Pascal, Maarten Pieterjan VANHOVE, Pablo DESCHEPPER, Arnout GREGOIR, Anna ROOSE et. al.Basic information
Original name
Parasite escape through trophic specialization in a species flock
Authors
HABLUTZEL, Pascal (756 Switzerland), Maarten Pieterjan VANHOVE (56 Belgium, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Pablo DESCHEPPER (56 Belgium), Arnout GREGOIR (56 Belgium), Anna ROOSE (56 Belgium), Filip VOLCKAERT (56 Belgium) and Joost RAEYMAEKERS (56 Belgium)
Edition
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, HOBOKEN, Wiley, 2017, 1010-061X
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher
United States of America
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Impact factor
Impact factor: 2.538
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14310/17:00095405
Organization unit
Faculty of Science
UT WoS
000405355100017
Keywords in English
Acanthocephala; adaptive radiation; fish; host-parasite interaction; Lake Tanganyika; speciation
Změněno: 10/4/2018 13:32, Ing. Nicole Zrilić
Abstract
V originále
Adaptive radiation occurs when species diversify rapidly to occupy an array of ecological niches. As opportunities for parasite infection and transmission may greatly vary among these niches, adaptive radiation is expected to be associated with a turnover of the parasite community. As major agents of natural and sexual selection, parasites may play a central role in host diversification. The study of parasite turnover may thus be of general relevance and could significantly improve our understanding of adaptive radiation. In this study, we examined the parasite faunas of eleven species belonging to the tribe Tropheini, one of several adaptive radiations of cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika. The most parsimonious ancestral foraging strategy among the Tropheini is relatively unselective substrate browsing of aufwuchs. Several lineages evolved more specialized foraging strategies, such as selective combing of microscopic diatoms or picking of macro-invertebrates. We found that representatives of these specialized lineages bear reduced infection with food-web-transmitted acanthocephalan helminths, but not with parasites with a direct life cycle. Possibly, the evolution of selective foraging strategies entailed reduced ingestion of intermediate invertebrate hosts of acanthocephalans. We conclude that some species belonging to the Tropheini virtually escape acanthocephalan infection as a by-product of trophic specialization.
Links
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