High parasite diversity in the amphipod Gammarus lacustris in a subarctic lake ...

• Main Authors: Shaw, Jenny, Henriksen, Eirik, Knudsen, Rune, Kuhn, Jesper, Kuris, Armand, Lafferty, Kevin, Siwertsson, Anna, Soldánová, Miroslava, Amundsen, Per-Arne
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2020
• Subjects: FOS: Biological sciences; Knudsen; Norway; Northern Norway; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25349/d9b89t; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.25349/D9B89T

Amphipods are often key species in aquatic food webs due to their functional roles in the ecosystem and as intermediate hosts for trophically transmitted parasites. Amphipods can also host many parasite species, yet few studies address the entire parasite community of a gammarid population, precludi...