Parasite-mediated allochthonous input: Do hairworms enhance subsidized predation of stream salmonids on crickets?
Parasite-mediated allochthonous input: Do hairworms enhance subsidized predation of stream salmonids on crickets?
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寄生虫介导的异地输入:毛虫是否会增强溪流鲑鱼对蟋蟀的补贴捕食?
DOI:
10.1139/z07-135
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发表时间:
2008
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
Y. Harada
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作者:
Tsukini Sato;Masahiro Arizono;R.SoneR. Sone;Y. Harada
Energy and nutrients flow in diverse pathways across heterogeneous landscapes and tightly link the discrete food webs in local habitats. However, parasitism that enhances allochthonous resource input has not been previously documented. In a well-known example of parasite manipulation of host behaviour, crickets infected by mature hairworms (Nematomorpha) seek and jump into water when the worms reach the free-living stage. We found that a large number of trout (22%–61%), an aquatic predator, preyed on camel crickets (genera Diestrammena Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888 and Tachycines Adelung, 1902) in September in five Japanese mountain streams where this host–parasite system exists. Trout (Kirikuchi charr, Salvelinus leucomaenis japonicus (Oshima, 1961); red-spotted masu salmon, Oncorhynchus masou ishikawae Jordan and McGregor, 1925) that preyed on crickets frequently ingested hairworms, whereas trout that did not prey on crickets did not ingest hairworms. Our results strongly suggest that hairworms enhance st...