Parasite infection and the movement of the aquatic snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum along a depth cline.

ABSTRACT: Parasite species that use two or more host species during their life cycle depend on successful transmission between these species. These successive host species may have different habitat requirements. For example, one host species may be aquatic while the other is terrestrial. To overcome this complicating factor in transmission, a wide diversity of parasite species have adaptations that alter the habitat preference in one host species to facilitate transmission to the next host species.Two common trematode parasites in New Zealand, Atriophallophorus winterbourni and Notocotylus spp., both have a life cycle with two host species. The aquatic snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum is the intermediate host, from which the parasites require transmission to dabbling ducks or oth

SUBMITTER: Feijen F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10227174 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature