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Tracking year-to-year changes in intestinal nematode communities of rufous mouse lemurs (Microcebus rufus)

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TUOMAS AIVELO Open the ORCID record for TUOMAS AIVELO [Opens in a new window] ,
ALAN MEDLAR ,
ARI LÖYTYNOJA ,
JUHA LAAKKONEN  and
JUKKA JERNVALL
TUOMAS AIVELO*
Affiliation:
Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
ALAN MEDLAR
Affiliation:
Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland
ARI LÖYTYNOJA
Affiliation:
Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland
JUHA LAAKKONEN
Affiliation:
Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 66, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland
JUKKA JERNVALL
Affiliation:
Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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*Corresponding author. Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland. E-mail: tuomas.aivelo@helsinki.fi
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Summary

While it is known that intestinal parasite communities vary in their composition over time, there is a lack of studies addressing how variation in component communities (between-hosts) manifests in infracommunities (within-host) during the host lifespan. In this study, we investigate the changes in the intestinal parasite infracommunities in wild-living rufous mouse lemurs (Microcebus rufus) from Ranomafana National Park in southeastern Madagascar from 2010 to 2012. We used high-throughput barcoding of the 18S rRNA gene to interrogate parasite community structure. Our results show that in these nematode communities, there were two frequently occurring putative species and four rarer putative species. All putative species were randomly distributed over host individuals and they did not occur in clear temporal patterns. For the individuals caught in at least two different years, there was high turnover of putative species and high variation in fecal egg counts. Our study shows that while there was remarkable variation in infracommunities over time, the component community was relatively stable. Nevertheless, the patterns of prevalence varied substantially between years in each component community.

Keywords

nematodesmouse lemurslongitudinal studyinfracommunity analysismetabarcoding
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Parasitology , Volume 142 , Issue 8 , July 2015 , pp. 1095 - 1107
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