ArticleScientific reports2022
Heat sensitivity of first host and cercariae may restrict parasite transmission in a warming sea.
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- Balancing sample sizes in parasitology: A standardized experimental infection method using faecal parasite eggs and aquatic intermediate hosts.Current research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2026Article
- Universal versus taxon-specific drivers of helminth prevalence and intensity of infection.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Responses at various levels of ecological hierarchy indicate acclimation to sequential sublethal heatwaves in a temperate benthic ecosystem.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
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- Gut microbiota in parasite-transmitting gastropods.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2023Review
- Temperature and intraspecific variation affect host-parasite interactions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Thermal optima of cercarial emergence in trematodes from a marine high-temperature ecosystem, the Persian Gulf.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
To predict global warming impacts on parasitism, we should describe the thermal tolerance of all players in host-parasite systems. Complex life-cycle parasites such as trematodes are of particular interest since they can drive complex ecological changes. This study evaluates the net response to temperature of the infective larval stage of Himasthla elongata, a parasite inhabiting the southwestern Baltic Sea. The thermal sensitivity of (i) the infected and uninfected first intermediate host (Littorina littorea) and (ii) the cercarial emergence, survival, self-propelling, encystment, and infection capacity to the second intermediate host (Mytilus edulis sensu lato) were examined. We found that infection by the trematode rendered the gastropod more susceptible to elevated temperatures representing warm summer events in the region. At 22 °C, cercarial emergence and infectivity were at their optimum while cercarial survival was shortened, narrowing the time window for successful mussel infection. Faster out-of-host encystment occurred at increasing temperatures. After correcting the cercarial emergence and infectivity for the temperature-specific gastropod survival, we found that warming induces net adverse effects on the trematode transmission to the bivalve host. The findings suggest that gastropod and cercariae mortality, as a tradeoff for the emergence and infectivity, will hamper the possibility for trematodes to flourish in a warming ocean.
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