Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
J Anim Ecol. 2020 Aug;89(8):1750-1753. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13276. Epub 2020 Jul 1.
Dáttilo, W., Barrozo-Chávez, N., Lira-Noriega, A., Guevara, R., Villalobos, F., Santiago-Alarcon, D., Neves, F. S., Izzo, T., & Ribeiro, S. P. (2020). Species-level drivers of mammalian ectoparasite faunas. Journal of Animal Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13216. The question of what drives the number of parasite species able to infect a given host species is still a largely open question, despite decades of research. Dáttilo and colleagues examine the potential drivers of ectoparasite species across a large set of host species to explore the taxonomic and trait drivers of host-parasite interactions. Here, we contextualize their findings, explore what is known about parasite species richness, and identify some potential next steps towards answers.
达蒂洛、N. 巴罗佐-查韦斯、A. 利拉-诺里埃加、R. 格瓦拉、F. 比利亚洛沃斯、D. 圣地亚哥-阿兰科、F. S. 内韦斯、T. 伊佐和 S. P. 里贝罗（2020）。哺乳动物外寄生虫区系的种级驱动因素。动物生态学杂志。https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13216. 尽管已经进行了几十年的研究，但究竟是什么驱动了能够感染特定宿主物种的寄生虫物种数量，这仍然是一个很大的悬而未决的问题。达蒂洛和他的同事们研究了一大组宿主物种中外寄生虫物种的潜在驱动因素，以探索宿主-寄生虫相互作用的分类和特征驱动因素。在这里，我们对他们的研究结果进行了背景分析，探讨了寄生虫物种丰富度的已知情况，并确定了一些潜在的下一步答案。
