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Contrasting temperature responses in seasonal timing of cercariae shedding by Rhipidocotyle trematodes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2022

Jouni Taskinen Open the ORCID record for Jouni Taskinen [Opens in a new window] ,
Jocelyn M. Choo ,
Ekaterina Mironova Open the ORCID record for Ekaterina Mironova [Opens in a new window]  and
Mikhail Gopko Open the ORCID record for Mikhail Gopko [Opens in a new window]
Jouni Taskinen*
Affiliation:
Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
Jocelyn M. Choo
Affiliation:
Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
Ekaterina Mironova
Affiliation:
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskij prosp., 33, 119071 Moscow, Russia 3
Mikhail Gopko
Affiliation:
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskij prosp., 33, 119071 Moscow, Russia 3
*
Author for correspondence: Jouni Taskinen, E-mail: jouni.k.taskinen@jyu.fi
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Abstract

Global warming is likely to lengthen the seasonal duration of larval release by parasites. We exposed freshwater mussel hosts, Anodonta anatina, from 2 high-latitude populations to high, intermediate and low temperatures throughout the annual cercarial shedding period of the sympatric trematodes Rhipidocotyle fennica and R. campanula, sharing the same transmission pathway. At the individual host level, under warmer conditions, the timing of the cercarial release in both parasite species shifted towards seasonally earlier period while its duration did not change. At the host population level, evidence for the lengthening of larvae shedding period with warming was found for R. fennica. R. campanula started the cercarial release seasonally clearly earlier, and at a lower temperature, than R. fennica. Furthermore, the proportion of mussels shedding cercariae increased, while day-degrees required to start the cercariae shedding decreased in high-temperature treatment in R. fennica. In R. campanula these effects were not found, suggesting that warming can benefit more R. fennica. These results do not completely support the view that climate warming would invariably increase the seasonal duration of larval shedding by parasites, but emphasizes species-specific differences in temperature-dependence and in seasonality of cercarial release.

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Bucephalidaecercariaclimate changeDigeneamolluscparasite phenologytemperaturetransmission
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Parasitology , Volume 149 , Issue 8 , July 2022 , pp. 1045 - 1056
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