The Diversity of Parasites

By Robert Poulin, Serge Morand. The Quarterly review of biology, 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Small Animals

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Macroecological patterns of species richness in parasite assemblages (2004, methodology): “The use of epidemiological theory for the study of parasite species richness is a relatively recent development ( Poulin & Morand, 2000 ).”
Importance of parasites and their life cycle characteristics in determining the structure of a large marine food web (2005, neutral): “Host‐parasite interactions, however, are ubiquitous in real systems ( Poulin & Morand 2000, 2004 ) and are known to affect community structure (e.g.”
Host introductions and the geography of parasite taxonomic diversity (2003, background): “Host switches, i.e. transfers of parasite species from one host species to another, do occur from time to time, but they are not frequent enough to allow a diverse community of parasites to be assembled over a short period of time (Poulin & Morand, 2000).”
Latitudinal gradients of parasite species richness in primates (2005, background): “Regional or taxonomic sampling biases pose a challenge to studies of parasite diversity, with host species that are better studied having more parasites reported in the literature (Gregory, 1990; Poulin & Morand, 2000).”
Use of fish as intermediate hosts by helminth parasites: A comparative analysis (2004, neutral): “Recent investigations have attempted to find the key determinants of parasite biodiversity (see reviews in Poulin 1997, Morand 2000, Poulin and Morand 2000).”
Parasite species richness in carnivores: effects of host body mass, latitude, geographical range and population density (2007, neutral): “Poulin & Morand, 2000; Webb et al ., 2002; Guernier et al ., 2004; Guegan et al ., 2005).”
Metazoan parasites in wild fish and farmed salmon from aquaculture sites in southern Chile (2004, background): “Explanations of biological interactions and population differences among parasite species have also been considered (Vickery and Poulin, 1998; Poulin and Morand, 2000).”
Host traits and parasite species richness in even and odd-toed hoofed mammals, Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla (2006, background): “…a negative association between longevity and richness of all parasites, helminths and microparasites, contradicting prevailing hypotheses that longerlived animals should accumulate more parasites compared to animals with shorter life spans (Bell and Burt 1991, reviewed by Poulin and Morand 2000).”
Homage to Linnaeus: How many parasites? How many hosts? (2008, methodology): “Each bird species harbors on average three cestodes, two trematodes, three nematodes, and one acanthocephalan (7, 8, 22).”
The comparative biodiversity of seven globally important wetlands: a synthesis (2006, background): “Parasite diversity in birds and mammals is even larger than in fi shes ( Poulin and Morand, 2000 ).”
Sociobiology of slave-making ants (2001, neutral): “Traditionally, parasites are viruses, prokaryotes, or eukaryotes that exploit other such organisms (Toft et al. 1991; Hamilton and Howard 1997; SchmidHempel 1998; Poulin and Morand 2000).”
A global parasite conservation plan (2020, background): “Parasitic species are probably the most diverse and abundant form of metazoan life, but also the most threatened and under-protected (Lafferty and Kuris, 2002; Larsen et al., 2017; Poulin and Morand, 2000; Windsor, 1998).”