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Reproductive compensation in female Palaemonetes argentinus (Decapoda: Natantia) due to Microphallus szidati (Trematoda) infection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

M. Parietti Open the ORCID record for M. Parietti [Opens in a new window] ,
M.J. Merlo ,
M. Natal  and
M.A. Méndez Casariego
M. Parietti*
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Parasitología. Instituto de Investigaciones en Producción, Sanidad y Ambiente (IIPROSAM), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Juan B. Justo 2550 (7600), Mar del Plata, Argentina
M.J. Merlo
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Parasitología. Instituto de Investigaciones en Producción, Sanidad y Ambiente (IIPROSAM), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Juan B. Justo 2550 (7600), Mar del Plata, Argentina
M. Natal
Affiliation:
Centro Marplatense de Investigaciones Matemáticas (CEMIM), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Funes 3250 (7600), Mar del Plata, Argentina
M.A. Méndez Casariego
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Parasitología. Instituto de Investigaciones en Producción, Sanidad y Ambiente (IIPROSAM), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Juan B. Justo 2550 (7600), Mar del Plata, Argentina
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Author for correspondence: M. Parietti, E-mail: manuelaparietti@hotmail.com
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Abstract

Parasites may affect host demographic characteristics because they can directly or indirectly cause the death of their hosts and/or influence their reproduction. Parasitism is therefore recognized as a factor that influences the composition and structure of populations and communities. One of these behaviours is the compensatory response: the host can compensate for the parasite losses effect, modifying the reproductive effort to enhance fitness. Ovigerus female Palaemonetes argentinus was collected and sorted into two groups according to the degree of development of their embryos: newly spawned embryos and embryos ready to hatch. The number of embryos and their dry weight for each female were determined. All parts of the female body were checked for parasites. The females of P. argentinus were parasitized by Microphalus szidati. We found that parasitized females produce more embryos but had more egg loss during development and the percentage of embryonic loss was higher in the parasitized females than in non-parasitized. Parasitized females produced lighter eggs than those from uninfected females. This supports the compensatory reproduction hypothesis suggested for this species. Parasitism can change life history traits in a way that fecundity can be compensated; this co-evolution between host and parasites will be population or context dependent. Parasites are a functional part of any ecosystem and as our results show, deleting parasites in life history traits and reproduction studies in free living organisms could lead to an incomplete picture of the true processes that happen in nature.

Keywords

Fecundity compensationtrematodeparasitescrustaceanlife history traits
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Research Paper
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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 94 , 2020 , e204
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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