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Host specificity and species jumps in fish-parasite systems

VANHOVE, Maarten Pieterjan and T. HUYSE

Basic 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

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