Biology
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The cestode Schistocephalus solidus is a common parasite in freshwater threespine stickleback populations, imposing strong fitness costs on their hosts. Given this, it is surprising how little is known about the timing and development of infections in natural stickleback populations. Previous work showed that young-of-year stickleback can get infected shortly after hatching. We extended this observation by comparing infection prevalence of young-of-year stickleback from 3 Alaskan populations (Walby, Cornelius and Wolf lakes) over 2 successive cohorts (2018/19 and 2019/20). We observed strong variation between sampling years (2018 vs 2019 vs 2020), stickleback age groups (young-of-year vs 1-year-old) and sampling populations.
Publication Title
Parasitology
Publication Date
8-16-2022
Volume
149
Issue
9
First Page
1173
Last Page
1178
ISSN
0031-1820
DOI
10.1017/S0031182022000567
Keywords
Alaska, cestode, Gasterosteus aculeatus, infection timing, parasite-host interaction, Schistocephalus solidus, threespine stickleback
Repository Citation
Wohlleben, Anika M.; Steinel, Natalie C.; Meyer, Néva P.; Baker, John A.; and Foster, Susan A., "The timing and development of infections in a fish-cestode host-parasite system" (2022). Biology. 384.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_biology/384
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Copyright Conditions
Wohlleben, A. M., Steinel, N. C., Meyer, N. P., Baker, J. A., & Foster, S. A. (2022). The timing and development of infections in a fish–cestode host–parasite system. Parasitology, 149(9), 1173-1178.
