ArticleEcology and evolution2018
Save your host, save yourself? Caste-ratio adjustment in a parasite with division of labor and snail host survival following shell damage.
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Morphological and molecular identification of lymnaeid snail and trematodes cercariae in different water bodies in Perak, Malaysia.Parasitology research · 2023Article
- Association between parasite microbiomes and caste development and colony structure in a social trematode.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
- A colony-level optimization model provides a potential mechanism for the evolution of novel castes in eusocial ant colonies.Heliyon · 2022Article
- Environmental determinants of distribution of freshwater snails and trematode infection in the Omo Gibe River Basin, southwest Ethiopia.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2019Article
- Evolution, phylogenetic distribution and functional ecology of division of labour in trematodes.Parasites & vectors · 2019Review
- Save your host, save yourself? Caste-ratio adjustment in a parasite with division of labor and snail host survival following shell damage.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
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Abstract
Shell damage and parasitic infections are frequent in gastropods, influencing key snail host life-history traits such as survival, growth, and reproduction. However, their interactions and potential effects on hosts and parasites have never been tested. Host-parasite interactions are particularly interesting in the context of the recently discovered division of labor in trematodes infecting marine snails. Some species have colonies consisting of two different castes present at varying ratios; reproductive members and nonreproductive soldiers specialized in defending the colony. We assessed snail host survival, growth, and shell regeneration in interaction with infections by two trematode species,
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