Interannual and spatial variation in the parasite communities of Pacific sierra Scomberomorus sierra (Jordan et Starks) on Mexico's Pacific coast

Title:

Interannual and spatial variation in the parasite communities of Pacific sierra Scomberomorus sierra (Jordan et Starks) on Mexico's Pacific coast

Creator:

Santos-Bustos, Nataly G., Violante-González, Juan, Monks, Scott, Villalba-Vásquez, Princessa J., Villalobos, Shirley S. Salas, Acosta-Hernández, Monserrat S., and Gallegos, Aldo Diaz

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:7bc99ab5-f6e8-4588-9d5a-24c0d16835e7
uuid:7bc99ab5-f6e8-4588-9d5a-24c0d16835e7
doi:10.14411/fp.2020.029

Subject:

Marine parasites, predatory fish, tropics, south-central Pacific, and Mexico

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

počítač and online zdroj

Description:

The parasite communities of predatory fish can be species rich and diverse, making them effective models for studying the factors influencing temporal and spatial variation in these communities. Over a ten-year period an initial study was done on the metazoan parasite communities of Scomberomorus sierra (Jordan et Starks) from four locations on the south-central Pacific coast of Mexico. Twenty-four metazoan parasite taxa were identified from 674 S. sierra specimens: three species of Monogenea, eight Digenea, one Cestoda, one Acanthocephala, four Nematoda, five Copepoda, and two Isopoda. The parasite communities were characterised by high ectoparasite species richness, with monogeneans and some didymozoid species being numerically dominant. Community structure and species composition varied between locations, seasons and sampling years. Similarity between the component parasite communities was generally low, despite the occurrence of a distinctive set of host-specialist parasites. Interannual or local variations in some biotic and abiotic environmental factors are possible causes of the observed variations in the structure and species composition of the parasite community of S. sierra. Ecological factors were therefore considered to have more influence than phylogenetic aspects (host phylogeny) on parasite community structure.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

1-13

Source:

Folia parasitologica | 2020 Volume:67 | Number:1

Harvested from:

CDK

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