Parasite community structure as a predictor of host population structure: An example using Callorhinchus capensis.

摘要: This paper describes the parasite community structure of Cape elephant fish or St Joseph shark (Callorhinchus capensis) caught off West and South Coast Africa between 2010 2015. These data were used to build species accumulation curves (SAC) calculate biodiversity indices including rarefied richness, Shannon Weiner's diversity index, Simpson's index Pielou's J index. The correlated with host's biological determine how these affected provide insight into population structure. parasites identified in C. capensis (n = 259) include a cestode (Gyrocotyle plana), two monogeneans (Callorhynchicotyle callorhynchi Callorhinchicola multitesticulatus), an isopod (Anilocra leech (Branchellion sp.). Gyrocotyle plana was most prevalent at 71.43% monogenean had highest mean abundance (1.55 ± 0.45 parasites.fish−1) infection intensity (4.79 ± 0.66 parasites.infected fish−1). SAC measures indicate uniform across sampled host population, suggesting highly interactive no evidence for results show that can be infer their