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The Royal Society, Biology Letters, 1(7), p. 108-111, 2010

DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0616

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Temperature effects on parasite prevalence in a natural hybrid complex

Journal article published in 2010 by Corine N. Schoebel, Christoph Tellenbach ORCID, Piet Spaak, Justyna Wolinska
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Abstract

Both host susceptibility and parasite infectivity commonly have a genetic basis, and can therefore be shaped by coevolution. However, these traits are often sensitive to environmental variation, resulting in genotype-by-environment interactions. We tested the influence of temperature on host–parasite genetic specificity in the Daphnia longispina hybrid complex, exposed to the protozoan parasite Caullerya mesnili . Infection rates were higher at low temperature. Furthermore, significant differences between host clones, but not between host taxa, and a host genotype-by-temperature interaction were observed.