Temperature and intraspecific variation affect host-parasite interactions.

ABSTRACT: Parasites play key roles in regulating aquatic ecosystems, yet the impact of climate warming on their ecology and disease transmission remains poorly understood. Isolating the effect of warming is challenging as transmission involves multiple interacting species and potential intraspecific variation in temperature responses of one or more of these species. Here, we leverage a wide-ranging mosquito species and its facultative parasite as a model system to investigate the impact of temperature on host-parasite interactions and disease transmission. We conducted a common garden experiment measuring parasite growth and infection rates at seven temperatures using 12 field-collected parasite populations and a single mosquito population. We find that both free-living growth rates and infection ra

SUBMITTER: Ismail S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10473705 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature