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dc.contributor.authorKarvonen, Anssi
dc.contributor.authorKristjánsson, Bjarni
dc.contributor.authorSkúlason, Skuli
dc.contributor.authorLanki, Maiju
dc.contributor.authorRellstab, Christian
dc.contributor.authorJokela, Jukka
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-11T07:48:09Z
dc.date.available2013-12-11T07:48:09Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationKarvonen, A., Kristjánsson, B., Skúlason, S., Lanki, M., Rellstab, C., & Jokela, J. (2013). Water temperature, not fish morph, determines parasite infections of sympatric Icelandic threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus). <i>Ecology and Evolution</i>, <i>3</i>(6), 1507-1517. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.568" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.568</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_22889927
dc.identifier.otherTUTKAID_58305
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/42632
dc.description.abstractParasite communities of fishes are known to respond directly to the abiotic environment of the host, for example, to water quality and water temperature. Biotic factors are also important as they affect the exposure profile through heterogeneities in parasite distribution in the environment. Parasites in a particular environment may pose a strong selection on fish. For example, ecological differences in selection by parasites have been hypothesized to facilitate evolutionary differentiation of freshwater fish morphs specializing on different food types. However, as parasites may also respond directly to abiotic environment the parasite risk does not depend only on biotic features of the host environment. It is possible that different morphs experience specific selection gradients by parasites but it is not clear how consistent the selection is when abiotic factors change. We examined parasite pressure in sympatric morphs of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) across a temperature gradient in two large Icelandic lakes, Myvatn and Thingvallavatn. Habitat-specific temperature gradients in these lakes are opposite. Myvatn lava rock morph lives in a warm environment, while the mud morph lives in the cold. In Thingvallavatn, the lava rock morph lives in a cold environment and the mud morph in a warm habitat. We found more parasites in fish living in higher temperature in both lakes, independent of the fish morph, and this pattern was similar for the two dominating parasite taxa, trematodes and cestodes. However, at the same time, we also found higher parasite abundance in a third morph living in deep cold–water habitat in Thingvallavatn compared to the cold-water lava morph, indicating strong effect of habitat-specific biotic factors. Our results suggest complex interactions between water temperature and biotic factors in determining the parasite community structure, a pattern that may have implications for differentiation of stickleback morphs.fi
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEcology and Evolution
dc.relation.urihttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2045-7758
dc.subject.otherhost-parasite interactions
dc.titleWater temperature, not fish morph, determines parasite infections of sympatric Icelandic threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-201312112778
dc.contributor.laitosBio- ja ympäristötieteiden laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Biological and Environmental Scienceen
dc.contributor.oppiaineEkologia ja evoluutiobiologiafi
dc.contributor.oppiaineEvoluutiotutkimus (huippuyksikkö)fi
dc.contributor.oppiaineEcology and Evolutionary Biologyen
dc.contributor.oppiaineCentre of Excellence in Evolutionary Researchen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.date.updated2013-12-11T04:30:28Z
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.format.pagerange1507-1517
dc.relation.issn2045-7758
dc.relation.numberinseries6
dc.relation.volume3
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© 2013 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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dc.subject.ysolajiutuminen
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p15045
dc.rights.urlhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.relation.doi10.1002/ece3.568
dc.type.okmA1


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