期刊
EVOLUTION
卷 66, 期 10, 页码 3053-3066出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01655.x
关键词
Bombus; Crithidia bombi; immune defense; population genetics; transmission
资金
- Basic Research from Enterprise Ireland [SC/2002/209]
- Ulysses grant
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/I000151/1]
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Natural Environment Research Council
- Scottish Government
- Wellcome Trust: under the Insect Pollinators Initiative
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Swiss NSF [31003A-116057]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/I000100/1, BB/I000151/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/I000100/1, BB/I000151/1] Funding Source: UKRI
The evolutionary ecology of multihost parasites is predicted to depend upon patterns of host quality and the dynamics of transmission networks. Depending upon the differences in host quality and transmission asymmetries, as well as the balance between intra- and interspecific transmission, the evolution of specialist or generalist strategies is predicted. Using a trypanosome parasite of bumblebees, we ask how host quality and transmission networks relate to parasite population structure across host species, and thus the potential for the evolution of specialist strains adapted to different host species. Host species differed in quality, with parasite growth varying across host species. Highly asymmetric transmission networks, together with differences in host quality, likely explain local population structure of the parasite across host species. However, parasite population structure across years was highly dynamic, with parasite populations varying significantly from one year to the next within individual species at a given site. This suggests that, while host quality and transmission may provide the opportunity for short-term host specialization by the parasite, repeated bottlenecking of the parasite, in combination with its own reproductive biology, overrides these smaller scale effects, resulting in the evolution of a generalist parasite.
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