Rizvi Asim, Chaudhary Rohit, Haider Minza, Naseem Imrana
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
Department of Wildlife Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
J Parasit Dis. 2020 Jun;44(2):476-480. doi: 10.1007/s12639-020-01214-8. Epub 2020 Mar 14.
This study was undertaken to understand the impact of climate change on the ecology of infection of , a model trematode parasite. We analysed climate change data and data from infected fish over a period of seven years (2007-2013) from the Aligarh region (India) in this retrospective study. We show that infection of the trematode parasite (Rudolphi, 1814) in the forage fish is dependent on surface air temperature amongst the (ecologically) relevant climate change variables for both the parasite and its host. This study is the first to implicate surface air temperature as an environmental variable that may contribute towards parasitism, particularly for parasites with a piscine host. The biological relevance of changing climate on the ecology of this parasite is discussed.
本研究旨在了解气候变化对一种典型吸虫寄生虫感染生态的影响。在这项回顾性研究中,我们分析了印度阿里格尔地区七年间(2007 - 2013年)的气候变化数据以及受感染鱼类的数据。我们发现,在(生态上)与寄生虫及其宿主相关的气候变化变量中,饲料鱼感染吸虫寄生虫(Rudolphi,1814年)取决于地表气温。本研究首次表明地表气温是一个可能导致寄生现象的环境变量,特别是对于以鱼类为宿主的寄生虫。本文还讨论了气候变化对这种寄生虫生态的生物学意义。