Patterns of variation in equine strongyle community structure across age groups and gut compartments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Equine strongyles encompass more than 64 species of nematode worms that are responsible for growth retardation and the death of animals. The factors underpinning variation in the structure of the equine strongyle community remain unknown.

Methods

Using horse-based strongyle community data collected after horse deworming (48 horses in Poland, 197 horses in Ukraine), we regressed species richness and the Gini-Simpson index upon the horse's age, faecal egg count, sex and operation of origin. Using the Ukrainian observations, we applied a hierarchical diversity partitioning framework to estimate how communities were remodelled across operations, age groups and horses. Lastly, strongyle species counts collected after necropsy (46 horses in France, 150 in Australia) wer

SUBMITTER: Boisseau M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9921056 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature