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Niche theory for within-host parasite dynamics: Analogies to food web modules via feedback loops

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ECOLOGY LETTERS
卷 26, 期 3, 页码 351-368

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ele.14142

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coexistence; coinfection; feedback loops; intraguild predation; inverse Jacobian matrices; keystone predation; priority effects; within-host competition

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Why do parasites exhibit a wide dynamical range within their hosts? This study aims to answer this question and gain insights into parasite dose, dynamics, and diversity governing within-host infection through niche models. The study explores the competition between parasites and immune cells for host energy and discovers the mechanisms behind oscillatory dynamics, immune clearance, coexistence, and priority effects. The findings offer a new perspective and potential improvements in individual health.
Why do parasites exhibit a wide dynamical range within their hosts? For instance, why does infecting dose either lead to infection or immune clearance? Why do some parasites exhibit boom-bust, oscillatory dynamics? What maintains parasite diversity, that is coinfection v single infection due to exclusion or priority effects? For insights on parasite dose, dynamics and diversity governing within-host infection, we turn to niche models. An omnivory food web model (IGP) blueprints one parasite competing with immune cells for host energy (PIE). Similarly, a competition model (keystone predation, KP) mirrors a new coinfection model (2PIE). We then drew analogies between models using feedback loops. The following three points arise: first, like in IGP, parasites oscillate when longer loops through parasites, immune cells and resource regulate parasite growth. Shorter, self-limitation loops (involving resources and enemies) stabilise those oscillations. Second, IGP can produce priority effects that resemble immune clearance. But, despite comparable loop structure, PIE cannot due to constraints imposed by production of immune cells. Third, despite somewhat different loop structure, KP and 2PIE share apparent and resource competition mechanisms that produce coexistence (coinfection) or priority effects of prey or parasites. Together, this mechanistic niche framework for within-host dynamics offers new perspective to improve individual health.

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