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Infection, specificity and host manipulation of Australapatemon sp. (Trematoda, Strigeidae) in two sympatric species of leeches (Hirudinea)

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ANSSI KARVONEN Open the ORCID record for ANSSI KARVONEN [Opens in a new window] ,
ANNA FALTÝNKOVÁ ,
JOCELYN MAH CHOO  and
E. TELLERVO VALTONEN
ANSSI KARVONEN*
Affiliation:
Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyvaskyla, PO Box 35, 40014 Jyvaskyla, Finland
ANNA FALTÝNKOVÁ
Affiliation:
Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
JOCELYN MAH CHOO
Affiliation:
Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyvaskyla, PO Box 35, 40014 Jyvaskyla, Finland
E. TELLERVO VALTONEN
Affiliation:
Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyvaskyla, PO Box 35, 40014 Jyvaskyla, Finland
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*Corresponding author: Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyvaskyla, PO Box 35, 40014 Jyvaskyla, Finland. E-mail: anssi.t.karvonen@jyu.fi
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Summary

Factors that drive parasite specificity and differences in infection dynamics among alternative host species are important for ecology and evolution of host–parasite interactions, but still often poorly known in natural systems. Here, we investigated spatiotemporal dynamics of infection, host susceptibility and parasite-induced changes in host phenotype in a rarely explored host–parasite system, the Australapatemon sp. trematode infecting two sympatric species of freshwater leeches, Erpobdella octoculata and Helobdella stagnalis. We show significant variation in infection abundance between the host species in both space and time. Using experimental infections, we also show that most of this variation likely comes from interspecific differences in exposure rather than susceptibility. Moreover, we demonstrate that the hiding behaviour of E. octoculata, but not that of H. stagnalis, was impaired by the infection irrespective of the parasite abundance. This may increase susceptibility of E. octoculata to predation by the final avian host. We conclude that differences in patterns of infection and in behavioural alterations among alternative sympatric host species may arise in narrow spatial scales, which emphasises the importance of local infection and transmission dynamics for parasite life cycles.

Keywords

complex life cycleDigeneahost manipulationhost–parasite relationshipspatiotemporal variationspecificityTrematoda
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Parasitology , Volume 144 , Issue 10 , September 2017 , pp. 1346 - 1355
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