Parasite island syndromes in the context of nidicolous ectoparasites: Fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera) in wild passerine birds from Azores Archipelago |
| |
| Institution: | 1. CESAM – Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal;2. CIISA – Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida da Universidade Técnica, 1300-477 Lisboa, Portugal;3. Associação Vita Nativa, Sítio Pinheiros de Marim CP 247-A Quelfes, 8700-225 Olhão, Portugal;1. National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan;2. Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt;3. Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan;4. Division of Pathobiological Science Department of Basic Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan;1. Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya emb., 7–9, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia;2. Laboratory of Parasitic Worms and Protists, Zoological Institute RAS, Universitetskaya emb., 1, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia;1. Division of Malaria Research, Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan;2. ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;3. Germans Trias i Pujol Health Research Institute (IGTP), Badalona (Barcelona), Spain;4. Population Health and Immunity Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia;1. Laboratorio de Parasitología, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica;2. Departamento de Investigación en Entomología Médica, Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá;1. Department of Biochemistry, University of Calcutta, India;2. Department of Microbiology, Bidhannagar College, Kolkata, India |
| |
| Abstract: | Island syndrome, previously established for isolation process of insular vertebrates' populations, have been adapted to insular parasites communities, termed parasite island syndromes. In this work, were studied for the first time the insular syndromes for nidicolous ectoparasites of the bird species, Turdus merula, Sylvia atricapilla, Fringilla coelebs and Erithacus rubecula from Azores and the mainland Portugal. Flea species were only recorded on Azorean birds, namely Dasypsyllus gallinulae and Ctenocephalides felis felis, known as not host-specific parasites. In the absence of shared flea species between mainland and islands birds, a comparison among our fleas prevalence to Azores Islands and mainland fleas prevalence, recorded to others European studies, showed that Azorean host populations undergo higher prevalence than the mainland one. This result was consistent with parasite island syndromes predictions recorded to ectoparasites, hippoboscid flies and chewing lice, that fleas have higher prevalence on the Azores Islands compared to mainland Portugal. However, our results provide a new perspective to parasite island syndromes assumptions, namely in the context of nidicolous ectoparasites that spend only brief periods on the hosts' body. |
| |
| Keywords: | |
| 本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录！ |
|
