How climate change affects parasites: the case of trematode parasite Clinostomum complanatum and its fish host Trichogaster fasiatus

Autor:	Minza Haider, Asim Rizvi, Imrana Naseem, R. N. Chaudhary
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Host (biology) Short Communication Ecology (disciplines) Trichogaster Parasitism Climate change Zoology Biology biology.organism_classification Forage fish Fish Parasite hosting Parasitology sense organs
Zdroj:	J Parasit Dis
ISSN:	0975-0703 0971-7196
DOI:	10.1007/s12639-020-01214-8
Popis:	This study was undertaken to understand the impact of climate change on the ecology of infection of Clinostomum complanatum, a model trematode parasite. We analysed climate change data and data from infected fish over a period of seven years (2007–2013) from the Aligarh region (India) in this retrospective study. We show that infection of the trematode parasite Clinostomum complanatum (Rudolphi, 1814) in the forage fish Trichogaster facsiatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) is dependent on surface air temperature amongst the (ecologically) relevant climate change variables for both the parasite and its host. This study is the first to implicate surface air temperature as an environmental variable that may contribute towards parasitism, particularly for parasites with a piscine host. The biological relevance of changing climate on the ecology of this parasite is discussed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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