ArticleOecologia2020
Parasite infectious stages provide essential fatty acids and lipid-rich resources to freshwater consumers.
Article in Oecologia, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Consumption of trematode parasite infectious stages: from conceptual synthesis to future research agenda.Journal of helminthology · 2023Review
- Mussel parasite richness and risk of extinction.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2022Article
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- Invaders as Diluents of the Cercarial Dermatitis Etiological Agent.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Parasites and their freshwater snail hosts maintain their nutritional value for essential fatty acids despite altered algal diets.Oecologia · 2021Article
- The contributions of a trematode parasite infectious stage to carbon cycling in a model freshwater system.Parasitology research · 2021Article
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Abstract
Free-living parasite infectious stages, such as motile cercariae of trematodes (flatworms), can constitute substantial biomass within aquatic ecosystems and are frequently eaten by various consumers, potentially serving as an important source of nutrients and energy. However, quantitative data on their nutritional value (e.g., essential fatty acids [EFA]) are largely lacking. As EFA are leading indicators of nutritional quality and underpin aquatic ecosystem productivity, we performed fatty acid (FA) analysis on an aggregate of ~ 30,000 cercariae of the freshwater trematode, Ribeiroia ondatrae. Individual cercariae contained 15 ng of total FA, and considerable quantities of EFA, including eicosapentaenoic (EPA, at 0.79 ng cercaria
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