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Bovine tuberculosis disturbs parasite functional trait composition in African buffalo
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Beechler, B. R., Boersma, Kate S., Buss, Peter E., Coon, Courtney A. C., Gorsich, Erin E., Henrichs, Brian S., Siepielski, Adam M., Spaan, Johannie M., Spaan, Robert S., Ezenwa, Vanessa O. and Jolles, Anna E. (2019) Bovine tuberculosis disturbs parasite functional trait composition in African buffalo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116 (29). pp. 14645-14650. doi:10.1073/pnas.1903674116
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903674116
Abstract
Novel parasites can have wide-ranging impacts, not only on host populations, but also on the resident parasite community. Historically, impacts of novel parasites have been assessed by examining pairwise interactions between parasite species. However, parasite communities are complex networks of interacting species. Here we used multivariate taxonomic and trait-based approaches to determine how parasite community composition changed when African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) acquired an emerging disease, bovine tuberculosis (BTB). Both taxonomic and functional parasite richness increased significantly in animals that acquired BTB than in those that did not. Thus, the presence of BTB seems to catalyze extraordinary shifts in community composition. There were no differences in overall parasite taxonomic composition between infected and uninfected individuals, however. The trait-based analysis revealed an increase in direct-transmitted, quickly replicating parasites following BTB infection. This study demonstrates that trait-based approaches provide insight into parasite community dynamics in the context of emerging infections.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) Faculty of Science > Mathematics |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | ||||||||
| Publisher: | National Academy of Sciences | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0027-8424 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 16 July 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 116 | ||||||||
| Number: | 29 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 14645-14650 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.1903674116 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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