期刊
PARASITOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
卷 90, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2022.102598
关键词
Host-parasite interaction; Host record; Nematomorpha; Hairworm; Pitfall trap
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资金
- Hutton Fund (Royal Society of New Zealand)
- University of Otago Doctoral Scholarship
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) scholarship [PGSD3-530445-2019]
Parasites such as hairworms modify the behavior of their terrestrial hosts to increase transmission and reproduction. This study found new host records for hairworms and suggests that their host specificity is low, indicating a greater diversity and distribution than previously known in New Zealand.
Some parasites modify the phenotype of their host in order to increase transmission to another host or to an environment suitable for reproduction. This phenomenon, known as host manipulation, is found across many parasite taxa. Freshwater hairworms are known for the behavioural changes they cause in their terrestrial arthropod hosts, increasing their likelihood of entering water to exit the host and reproduce. Understanding how infected arthropods move around in the natural environment could help uncover alterations in spatial distribution or movement induced by hairworms in their terrestrial definitive hosts. Moreover, few hairworm-host records exist for New Zealand, so any additional record could help elucidate their true host specificity. Here, we investigated whether infected terrestrial arthropods were more likely to approach streams in two subalpine communities of invertebrates, using a spatial grid of specialised pitfall traps. Although hairworm infection could not explain the movements of arthropod hosts near streams, we found several new host records for hairworms, including the first records for the recently described Gordionus maori. We also found some new host-parasite associations for mermithid nematodes. These records show that the host specificity of hairworms is quite low, suggesting that their diversity and distribution may be greater than what is currently known for New Zealand.
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