Parasite community dynamics in an invasive vole - From focal introduction to wave front.

ABSTRACT: Multiple parasite species simultaneously infecting a host can interact with one another, which has the potential to influence host-parasite interactions. Invasive species typically lose members of their parasite community during the invasion process. Not only do the founding population escape their parasites, but the rapid range expansion of invaders once in the invaded range can lead to additional stochastic loss of parasites. As such, parasite community dynamics may change along an invasion gradient, with consequences for host invasion success. Here, we use the bank vole, Myodes glareolus, introduced as a small founding population at a point source in the Republic of Ireland in c.1920's and its ecto- and endoparasites to ask: i) how does the parasite community vary across an invas

SUBMITTER: Perkins SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5715215 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature