A complete Holocene record of trematode-bivalve infection and implications for the response of parasitism to climate change.

ABSTRACT: Increasing global temperature and sea-level rise have led to concern about expansions in the distribution and prevalence of complex-lifecycle parasites (CLPs). Indeed, numerous environmental variables can influence the infectivity and reproductive output of many pathogens. Digenean trematodes are CLPs with intermediate invertebrate and definitive vertebrate hosts. Global warming and sea level rise may affect these hosts to varying degrees, and the effect of increasing temperature on parasite prevalence has proven to be nonlinear and difficult to predict. Projecting the response of parasites to anthropogenic climate change is vital for human health, and a longer term perspective (10(4) y) offered by the subfossil record is necessary to complement the experimental and historical approaches o

SUBMITTER: Huntley JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4280592 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature