Longitudinal monitoring of parasites in individual wild primates 20.11.2015 Lectio praecursoria Tuomas Aivelo (@aivelo) Institute of Biotechnology; Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Doctoral Programme in Wildlife Biology, University of Helsinki
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Longitudinal monitoring of parasites in individual
wild primates
20.11.2015Lectio praecursoria
Tuomas Aivelo (@aivelo)
Institute of Biotechnology; Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Doctoral Programme in Wildlife Biology,University of Helsinki
Introduction M
ethods Study I &
II Study III
Study IV Conclusion
Host individual is a dynamic habitat
How parasite communities change?
Understanding interactions in parasite communities
CRT index vs nematode abundance 119 -0.00 0.98CRT index vs cestode abundance 120 -0.14 0.13CRT index vs parasite richness 120 -0.19 0.03n = sample size, r = correlation coefficient of spearman, P = probability
In nutshell
• While parasite communitiess seem stable looking at host at population-level sampling, individual monitoring can reveal wildly dynamic parasite community
• High-throughtput identification of intestinal nematodes is difficult but possible
Introduction M
ethods Study I &
II Study III
Study IV Conclusion
Future directions
• Interaction of parasites and microbiome
• Possibilities to track the most common nematode:– Do they die during hibernation?– Is there population structure in