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Do parasites adopt different strategies in different intermediate hosts? Host size, not host species, influences Coitocaecum parvum (Trematoda) life history strategy, size and egg production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2012

R. RUIZ DANIELS ,
S. BELTRAN ,
R. POULIN  and
C. LAGRUE
R. RUIZ DANIELS
Affiliation:
Université de Poitiers, UMR CNRS 7267, Laboratoire EBI Ecologie & Biologie des Interactions, Equipe Ecologie Evolution Symbiose, Poitiers, France University of Otago, Department of Zoology, Dunedin, New Zealand
S. BELTRAN
Affiliation:
Université de Poitiers, UMR CNRS 7267, Laboratoire EBI Ecologie & Biologie des Interactions, Equipe Ecologie Evolution Symbiose, Poitiers, France
R. POULIN
Affiliation:
University of Otago, Department of Zoology, Dunedin, New Zealand
C. LAGRUE*
Affiliation:
University of Otago, Department of Zoology, Dunedin, New Zealand
*
*Corresponding author: Department of Zoology, University of Otago, 340 Great King Street, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand, Tel: +64 3479 7986. Fax: +64 3479 7584. E-mail: clement.lagrue@gmail.com
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Summary

Host exploitation induces host defence responses and competition between parasites, resulting in individual parasites facing highly variable environments. Alternative life strategies may thus be expressed in context-dependent ways, depending on which host species is used and intra-host competition between parasites. Coitocaecum parvum (Trematode) can use facultative progenesis in amphipod intermediate hosts, Paracalliope fluviatilis, to abbreviate its life cycle in response to such environmental factors. Coitocaecum parvum also uses another amphipod host, Paracorophium excavatum, a species widely different in size and ecology from P. fluviatilis. In this study, parasite infection levels and strategies in the two amphipod species were compared to determine whether the adoption of progenesis by C. parvum varied between these two hosts. Potential differences in size and/or egg production between C. parvum individuals according to amphipod host species were also investigated. Results show that C. parvum life strategy was not influenced by host species. In contrast, host size significantly affected C. parvum strategy, size and egg production. Since intra-host interactions between co-infecting parasites also influenced C. parvum strategy, size and fecundity, it is highly likely that within-host resource limitations affect C. parvum life strategy and overall fitness regardless of host species.

Keywords

life cycle abbreviationintermediate hostsCoitocaecum parvumParacalliope fluviatilisParacorophium excavatum

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Parasitology , Volume 140 , Issue 2 , February 2013 , pp. 275 - 283
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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