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How epidemiological patterns shift across populations in an exotic lizard

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2019

C.H. Bezerra Open the ORCID record for C.H. Bezerra [Opens in a new window] ,
L.T. Pinheiro ,
G.C. Melo ,
R.R. Braga ,
L.A. Anjos  and
D.M. Borges-Nojosa
C.H. Bezerra*
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza 60455-760, Ceará, Brazil Núcleo Regional de Ofiologia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza 60455-760, Ceará, Brazil
L.T. Pinheiro
Affiliation:
Núcleo Regional de Ofiologia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza 60455-760, Ceará, Brazil
G.C. Melo
Affiliation:
Núcleo Regional de Ofiologia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza 60455-760, Ceará, Brazil
R.R. Braga
Affiliation:
Núcleo Regional de Ofiologia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza 60455-760, Ceará, Brazil
L.A. Anjos
Affiliation:
Faculdade de Engenharia, Departamento de Biologia e Zootecnia, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Campus de Ilha Solteira, Ilha Solteira, São Paulo, Brazil
D.M. Borges-Nojosa
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza 60455-760, Ceará, Brazil Núcleo Regional de Ofiologia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza 60455-760, Ceará, Brazil
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Author for correspondence: C.H. Bezerra, E-mail: castieleholanda@gmail.com
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Abstract

Several factors influence the dynamics and structure of parasite communities. Our goal was to investigate how the community composition, prevalence and abundance of parasites change across seven populations of the exotic lizard Hemidactylus mabouia in Northeast Brazil, and to describe ontogenetic and sex variations. We found differences in the composition of component communities and patterns of infection according to the host body size across the lizard populations. We did not find any variation between the sexes regarding epidemiological patterns, which can probably be explained by the similar diet and habitat use of male and female H. mabouia. An unusually high abundance and prevalence of trematodes infecting this host lizard was apparent when we compared other native lizard hosts, and we suggest that local environmental conditions might be advantageous to the development and life cycle of these parasites due to the abundance of all the intermediate and definitive hosts.

Keywords

HelminthsHemidactylus mabouiabiogeography of parasitism
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Research Paper
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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 94 , 2020 , e97
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019 

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