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Quantifying the fitness cost that parasites impose on wild hosts is a challenging task because the epidemiological history of field-sampled hosts is often unknown. In this study we used an internal marker of the parasite pressure on individual hosts to evaluate the costs of parasitism with respect t...
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ftdatacite:10.5061/dryad.34qf8 2024-02-04T09:52:53+01:00 Data from: Is the continental life of the European eel Anguilla anguilla affected by the parasitic invader Anguillicoloides crassus? ... Lefebvre, François 2013 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.34qf8 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.34qf8 en eng Dryad https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.2916 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 pathogenicity fitness cost Virulence Anguilla anguilla anguillicolosis host–parasite interaction Holocene Anguillicoloides Anguillicola crassus Dataset dataset 2013 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.34qf810.1098/rspb.2012.2916 2024-01-05T04:39:59Z Quantifying the fitness cost that parasites impose on wild hosts is a challenging task because the epidemiological history of field-sampled hosts is often unknown. In this study we used an internal marker of the parasite pressure on individual hosts to evaluate the costs of parasitism with respect to host body condition, size increase and reproductive potential of field-collected animals for which we also determined individual age. In our investigated system, the European eel Anguilla anguilla and the parasitic invader Anguillicoloides crassus, high virulence and severe impacts are expected because the host lacks an adaptive immune response. We demonstrated a nonlinear relationship between the severity of damage to the affected organ (i.e. the swimbladder, our internal marker) and parasite abundance and biomass, thus showing that the use of classical epidemiological parameters was not relevant here. Surprisingly, we found that the most severely affected eels (with damaged swimbladder) had greater body length ... : Dataset - Lefebvre et alRaw data ... Dataset Anguilla anguilla DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Quantifying the fitness cost that parasites impose on wild hosts is a challenging task because the epidemiological history of field-sampled hosts is often unknown. In this study we used an internal marker of the parasite pressure on individual hosts to evaluate the costs of parasitism with respect to host body condition, size increase and reproductive potential of field-collected animals for which we also determined individual age. In our investigated system, the European eel Anguilla anguilla and the parasitic invader Anguillicoloides crassus, high virulence and severe impacts are expected because the host lacks an adaptive immune response. We demonstrated a nonlinear relationship between the severity of damage to the affected organ (i.e. the swimbladder, our internal marker) and parasite abundance and biomass, thus showing that the use of classical epidemiological parameters was not relevant here. Surprisingly, we found that the most severely affected eels (with damaged swimbladder) had greater body length ... : Dataset - Lefebvre et alRaw data ... |
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Data from: Is the continental life of the European eel Anguilla anguilla affected by the parasitic invader Anguillicoloides crassus? ... |
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Data from: Is the continental life of the European eel Anguilla anguilla affected by the parasitic invader Anguillicoloides crassus? ... |
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Data from: Is the continental life of the European eel Anguilla anguilla affected by the parasitic invader Anguillicoloides crassus? ... |
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Data from: Is the continental life of the European eel Anguilla anguilla affected by the parasitic invader Anguillicoloides crassus? ... |
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data from: is the continental life of the european eel anguilla anguilla affected by the parasitic invader anguillicoloides crassus? ... |
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