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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY
卷 52, 期 9, 页码 603-615出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2022.05.001
关键词
Cichlidae; Monogenea; Phylogeny; Diversification; Host specificity; Neotropic area
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资金
- Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic [P505/12/G112]
- Masaryk University, Czech Republic [MUNI/A/1488/2021]
This article explores the coevolution of host-parasite interactions and the species diversity of parasites in cichlid fish. The study finds that the parasite fauna of cichlids in Neotropical America is still poorly explored. Phylogenetic analyses of the parasites reveal a significant coevolutionary signal in the host-parasite system.
Host-parasite coevolution is one of the main topics of the evolutionary biology of host-parasite associa-tions. The majority of monogeneans parasitizing fish exhibit a high degree of host specificity. As a result, their evolutionary history might be intertwined with that of their fish hosts. The Cichlidae represent a diverse group of secondary freshwater fish with disjunctive distribution. Host-specific dactylogyrid monogeneans commonly parasitize cichlid fish. Their high diversity is associated with the main areas of cichlid distribution, i.e., Neotropical America and Africa. Nevertheless, the parasite fauna of cichlids from Neotropical America is still underexplored. A total of 31 cichlid species were examined for the pres-ence of monogeneans, with 20 of them being parasitized. On these cichlids, 30 monogeneans belonging to the genera Gussevia, Trinidactylus, and Scadicleithrum were identified, 17 of them potentially representing new species for science. Phylogenetic analyses revealed three monophyletic groups of Neotropic cichlid monogeneans. Genus Gussevia was monophyletic, while Sciadicleithrum resulted polyphyletic. Sciedicleithrum from South America and Sciadicleithrum from Mexico represented two divergent lineages. The plesiomorphic Neotropical cichlid host group for dactylogyrid monogeneans was Cichlini, from which the representatives of other Neotropical cichlid tribes were colonised. Cophylogenetic analyses revealed a statistically significant cophylogenetic signal in the investigated host-parasite system, with host switch and duplication representing the main coevolutionary events for monogeneans parasitizing Neotropical cichlids. This scenario is in accordance with previous studies focussed on dactylogyridean monogeneans parasitizing freshwater fish in Europe and Africa.(c) 2022 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Australian Society for Parasitology.
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