Detailed Information on Publication Record
2015
Host specificity and species jumps in fish-parasite systems
VANHOVE, Maarten Pieterjan and T. HUYSEBasic information
Original name
Host specificity and species jumps in fish-parasite systems
Authors
VANHOVE, Maarten Pieterjan (56 Belgium, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and T. HUYSE (56 Belgium)
Edition
1 edition. Neuveden, Parasite Diversity and Diversification: Evolutionary Ecology Meets Phylogenetics, p. 401-419, 19 pp. 2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize
Field of Study
10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Publication form
printed version "print"
References:
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14310/15:00100384
Organization unit
Faculty of Science
ISBN
978-1-107-03765-6
UT WoS
000361536600024
Keywords in English
Evolutionary Biology; Zoology; Life Sciences
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 23/6/2020 09:39, Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS.
Abstract
V originále
Host specificity is one of the key factors governing the distribution and introduction of parasite species, but it is also an important aspect of parasite species diversity. Indeed, parasite taxa only infecting a single host species (or a limited number of them) can reach higher species numbers in a given area (Dobson et al., 2008). Moreover, an understanding of host specificity is crucial in estimates of parasite biodiversity and biogeography. The notion of parasite species being more or less unique to a host species easily contributes to the conclusion that global parasite species richness outnumbers many times the biodiversity of free-living species (Windsor, 1998). Logically, this aspect is also paramount to an accurate assessment of co-extinction, i.e. the extent to which a number of parasite species goes extinct once their host species does (Stork & Lyal, 1993; Koh et al., 2004; Dunn et al., 2009). A varying degree of host specificity also complicates the study of parasite distribution patterns. Indeed, global diversity or distribution gradients for parasites cannot simply be inferred from those of their hosts