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Temperature alters host genotype-specific susceptibility to chytrid infection
Gsell, A.S.; de Senerpont Domis, L.N.; Van Donk, E.; Ibelings, B.W. (2013). Temperature alters host genotype-specific susceptibility to chytrid infection. PLoS One 8(8): e71737. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071737
In: PLoS One. Public Library of Science: San Francisco. ISSN 1932-6203; e-ISSN 1932-6203
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Keyword
    Fresh water

Authors  Top | Dataset 
  • Gsell, A.S., more
  • de Senerpont Domis, L.N., more
  • Van Donk, E.
  • Ibelings, B.W.

Abstract
    The cost of parasitism often depends on environmental conditions and host identity. Therefore, variation in the biotic and abiotic environment can have repercussions on both, species-level host-parasite interaction patterns but also on host genotype-specific susceptibility to disease. We exposed seven genetically different but concurrent strains of the diatom Asterionella Formosa to one genotype of its naturally co-occurring chytrid parasite Zygorhizidium planktonicum across five environmentally relevant temperatures. We found that the thermal tolerance range of the tested parasite genotype was narrower than that of its host, providing the host with a ‘‘cold’’ and ‘‘hot’’ thermal refuge of very low or no infection.Susceptibility to disease was host genotype-specific and varied with temperature level so that no genotype was most or least resistant across all temperatures. This suggests a role of thermal variation in the maintenance of diversity in disease related traits in this phytoplankton host. The duration and intensity of chytrid parasite pressure on host populations is likely to be affected by the projected changes in temperature patterns due to climate warming both through altering temperature dependent disease susceptibility of the host and, potentially, through en- or disabling thermal host refugia. This, in turn may affect the selective strength of the parasite on the genetic architecture of the host population.

Dataset
  • Genotype by temperature by infection interaction in Asterionella formosa dataset, more

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