Detailed Information on Publication Record
2011
Are fish immune systems really affected by parasites? An immunoecological study of common carp (Cyprinus carpio).
ROHLENOVÁ, Karolína, Serge MORAND, Pavel HYRŠL, Soňa TOLAROVÁ, Martin FLAJŠHANS et. al.Basic information
Original name
Are fish immune systems really affected by parasites? An immunoecological study of common carp (Cyprinus carpio).
Name in Czech
Are fish immune systems really affected by parasites? An immunoecological study of common carp (Cyprinus carpio).
Authors
ROHLENOVÁ, Karolína (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Serge MORAND (250 France), Pavel HYRŠL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Soňa TOLAROVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Martin FLAJŠHANS (203 Czech Republic) and Andrea VETEŠNÍKOVÁ ŠIMKOVÁ (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Parasites and Vectors, 2011, 1756-3305
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
30102 Immunology
Country of publisher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Impact factor
Impact factor: 2.937
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14310/11:00049853
Organization unit
Faculty of Science
UT WoS
000293948100001
Keywords (in Czech)
Cyprinus carpio; immunity; parasites
Keywords in English
Cyprinus carpio; immunity; parasites
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 11/4/2012 09:35, prof. RNDr. Andrea Vetešníková Šimková, PhD.
Abstract
V originále
The basic function of the immune system is to protect an organism against infection in order to minimize the fitness costs of being infected. According to life-history theory, energy resources are in a trade-off between the costly demands of immunity and other physiological demands. In this study, we investigated the potential associations between the physiology and immunocompetence of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) collected during five different periods of a given year. We analyzed which of two factors, seasonality or parasitism, had the strongest impact on changes in fish physiology and immunity. We found that seasonal changes play a key role in affecting the analyzed measurements of physiology, immunity and parasitism. The correlation analysis revealed the relationships between the measures of overall host physiology, immunity and parasite load when temporal variability effect was removed. We found that fish with a worse condition status were infected more by monogeneans, representing the most abundant parasite group. The high infection by cestodes seems to activate the phagocytes. Even if no direct trade-off between the measures of host immunity and physiology was confirmed when taking into account the seasonality, it seems that seasonal variability affects host immunity and physiology through energy allocation in a trade-off between life important functions, especially reproduction and fish condition. Host immunity measures were not found to be in a trade-off with the investigated physiological traits or functions, but we confirmed the immunosuppressive role of 11-ketotestosterone on fish immunity measured by complement activity. We suggest that the different parasite life-strategies influence different aspects of host physiology and activate the different immunity pathways.
Links
| GA524/07/0188, research and development project |
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| MSM0021622416, plan (intention) |
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