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Faiad SM, Williams MA, Goodman M, Sokolow S, Olden JD, Mitchell K, Andriantsoa R, Gordon Jones JP, Andriamaro L, Ravoniarimbinina P, Rasamy J, Ravelomanana T, Ravelotafita S, Ravo R, Rabinowitz P, De Leo GA, Wood CL. Temperature affects predation of schistosome-competent snails by a novel invader, the marbled crayfish Procambarus virginalis. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0290615. [PMID: 37703262 PMCID: PMC10499222 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2022] [Accepted: 08/12/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023] Open
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The human burden of environmentally transmitted infectious diseases can depend strongly on ecological factors, including the presence or absence of natural enemies. The marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) is a novel invasive species that can tolerate a wide range of ecological conditions and colonize diverse habitats. Marbled crayfish first appeared in Madagascar in 2005 and quickly spread across the country, overlapping with the distribution of freshwater snails that serve as the intermediate host of schistosomiasis-a parasitic disease of poverty with human prevalence ranging up to 94% in Madagascar. It has been hypothesized that the marbled crayfish may serve as a predator of schistosome-competent snails in areas where native predators cannot and yet no systematic study to date has been conducted to estimate its predation rate on snails. Here, we experimentally assessed marbled crayfish consumption of uninfected and infected schistosome-competent snails (Biomphalaria glabrata and Bulinus truncatus) across a range of temperatures, reflective of the habitat range of the marbled crayfish in Madagascar. We found that the relationship between crayfish consumption and temperature is unimodal with a peak at ~27.5°C. Per-capita consumption increased with body size and was not affected either by snail species or their infectious status. We detected a possible satiation effect, i.e., a small but significant reduction in per-capita consumption rate over the 72-hour duration of the predation experiment. Our results suggest that ecological parameters, such as temperature and crayfish weight, influence rates of consumption and, in turn, the potential impact of the marbled crayfish invasion on snail host populations.
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- Sara M. Faiad
- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
- Department of Biology, McDaniel College, Westminster, MD, United States of America
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- Hopkins Marine Station, Dept. of Oceans and of Earth System Science, Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- Hopkins Marine Station, Dept. of Oceans and of Earth System Science, Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
- Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States of America
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- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- Hopkins Marine Station, Dept. of Oceans and of Earth System Science, Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- Réseau International Schistosomiase Environnement Aménagement et Lutte (RISEAL) Madagascar, Madagascar
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- Réseau International Schistosomiase Environnement Aménagement et Lutte (RISEAL) Madagascar, Madagascar
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- Réseau International Schistosomiase Environnement Aménagement et Lutte (RISEAL) Madagascar, Madagascar
- Department of Zoology and Animal Biodiversity, University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
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- Réseau International Schistosomiase Environnement Aménagement et Lutte (RISEAL) Madagascar, Madagascar
- Department of Zoology and Animal Biodiversity, University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
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- Department of Zoology and Animal Biodiversity, University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
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- Department of Zoology and Animal Biodiversity, University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
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- Department of Environmental/Occupational Health Sciences, Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
- Center for One Health Research (COHR), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- Hopkins Marine Station, Dept. of Oceans and of Earth System Science, Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
- Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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Feijen F, Buser C, Klappert K, Jokela J. Parasite infection and the movement of the aquatic snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum along a depth cline. Ecol Evol 2023; 13:e10124. [PMID: 37261317 PMCID: PMC10227174 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2022] [Revised: 05/03/2023] [Accepted: 05/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023] Open
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Parasite species that use two or more host species during their life cycle depend on successful transmission between these species. These successive host species may have different habitat requirements. For example, one host species may be aquatic while the other is terrestrial. To overcome this complicating factor in transmission, a wide diversity of parasite species have adaptations that alter the habitat preference in one host species to facilitate transmission to the next host species.Two common trematode parasites in New Zealand, Atriophallophorus winterbourni and Notocotylus spp., both have a life cycle with two host species. The aquatic snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum is the intermediate host, from which the parasites require transmission to dabbling ducks or other waterfowl. Of these parasites, A. winterbourni is most frequently found in snails from the shallow-water margin. This may indicate parasite-induced movement of infected snails into the foraging habitat of dabbling ducks.To test whether the parasites manipulate the snails to move into shallow water, we stretched tubular mesh cages across depth-specific ecological habitat zones in a lake. Both infected and healthy snails were released into the cages. After 11 days, significantly higher infection frequencies of A. winterbourni were retrieved from the shallowest end of the cages, while Notocotylus spp. frequencies did not vary with depth.The hypothesis that A. winterbourni induces its snail host to move into the shallow-water habitat cannot be rejected based on the experimental results. Although further research is needed to address alternative explanations, the depth preference of infected snails may be due to a parasite adaptation that facilitates trophic transmission of parasites to dabbling ducks.
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- Frida Feijen
- Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and TechnologyDübendorfSwitzerland
- Department of Environmental Systems Sciences, ETH‐ZürichInstitute of Integrative BiologyZürichSwitzerland
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- Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and TechnologyDübendorfSwitzerland
- Department of Environmental Systems Sciences, ETH‐ZürichInstitute of Integrative BiologyZürichSwitzerland
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- Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and TechnologyDübendorfSwitzerland
- Department of Environmental Systems Sciences, ETH‐ZürichInstitute of Integrative BiologyZürichSwitzerland
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- Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and TechnologyDübendorfSwitzerland
- Department of Environmental Systems Sciences, ETH‐ZürichInstitute of Integrative BiologyZürichSwitzerland
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The New Zealand mud snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum): autecology and management of a global invader. Biol Invasions 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-021-02681-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Hamada T, Kuriwada T. Boldness to predator is not significantly correlated with mating behaviour in a simultaneously hermaphroditic snail. ETHOL ECOL EVOL 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2019.1625953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Takatoshi Hamada
- Faculty of Education, Laboratory of Zoology, Kagoshima University, Korimoto 1-20-6, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan
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- Faculty of Education, Laboratory of Zoology, Kagoshima University, Korimoto 1-20-6, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan
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Sommers P, Chesson P. Effects of Predator Avoidance Behavior on the Coexistence of Competing Prey. Am Nat 2019; 193:E132-E148. [PMID: 31002576 DOI: 10.1086/701780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Predator avoidance behavior, in which prey limit foraging activities in the presence of predation threats, affects the dynamics of many ecological communities. Despite the growing theoretical appreciation of the role predation plays in coexistence, predator avoidance behavior has yet to be incorporated into the theory in a general way. We introduce adaptive avoidance behavior to a consumer-resource model with three trophic levels to ask whether the ability of prey-the middle trophic level-to avoid predators alters their ability to coexist. We determine the characteristics of cases in which predator avoidance behavior changes prey coexistence or the order of competitive dominance. The mechanism underlying such changes is the weakening of apparent competition relative to resource competition in determining niche overlap, even with resource intake costs. Avoidance behavior thus generally promotes coexistence if prey partition resources but not predators, whereas it undermines coexistence if prey partition predators but not resources. For any given case, the changes in the average fitness difference between two species resulting from avoidance behavior interact with changes in niche overlap to determine coexistence. These results connect the substantial body of theoretical work on avoidance behavior and population dynamics with the body of theory on competitive coexistence.
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Rosenkranz M, Poulin R, Selbach C. Behavioural impacts of trematodes on their snail host: Species-specific effects or generalised response? Ethology 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/eth.12808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Micha Rosenkranz
- Department of Infectious Diseases; University of Heidelberg; Heidelberg Germany
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- Department of Zoology; University of Otago; Dunedin New Zealand
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Verhaegen G, McElroy KE, Bankers L, Neiman M, Haase M. Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in a clonal invader. Ecol Evol 2018; 8:4465-4483. [PMID: 29760888 PMCID: PMC5938463 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2017] [Revised: 02/09/2018] [Accepted: 02/17/2018] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Organisms featuring wide trait variability and occurring in a wide range of habitats, such as the ovoviviparous New Zealand freshwater snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum, are ideal models to study adaptation. Since the mid‐19th century, P. antipodarum, characterized by extremely variable shell morphology, has successfully invaded aquatic areas on four continents. Because these obligately and wholly asexual invasive populations harbor low genetic diversity compared to mixed sexual/asexual populations in the native range, we hypothesized that (1) this phenotypic variation in the invasive range might be adaptive with respect to colonization of novel habitats, and (2) that at least some of the variation might be caused by phenotypic plasticity. We surveyed 425 snails from 21 localities across northwest Europe to attempt to disentangle genetic and environmental effects on shell morphology. We analyzed brood size as proxy for fitness and shell geometric morphometrics, while controlling for genetic background. Our survey revealed 10 SNP genotypes nested into two mtDNA haplotypes and indicated that mainly lineage drove variation in shell shape but not size. Physicochemical parameters affected both shell shape and size and the interaction of these traits with brood size. In particular, stronger stream flow rates were associated with larger shells. Our measurements of brood size suggested that relatively larger slender snails with relatively large apertures were better adapted to strong flow than counterparts with broader shells and relatively small apertures. In conclusion, the apparent potential to modify shell morphology plays likely a key role in the invasive success of P. antipodarum; the two main components of shell morphology, namely shape and size, being differentially controlled, the former mainly genetically and the latter predominantly by phenotypic plasticity.
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- Gerlien Verhaegen
- AG Vogelwarte Zoological Institute and Museum Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald Greifswald Germany
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- Department of Biology The University of Iowa Iowa City IA USA
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- Department of Biology The University of Iowa Iowa City IA USA
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- Department of Biology The University of Iowa Iowa City IA USA
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- AG Vogelwarte Zoological Institute and Museum Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald Greifswald Germany
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Swartz SJ, De Leo GA, Wood CL, Sokolow SH. Infection with schistosome parasites in snails leads to increased predation by prawns: implications for human schistosomiasis control. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017; 218:3962-7. [PMID: 26677260 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.129221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Schistosomiasis - a parasitic disease that affects over 200 million people across the globe - is primarily transmitted between human definitive hosts and snail intermediate hosts. To reduce schistosomiasis transmission, some have advocated disrupting the schistosome life cycle through biological control of snails, achieved by boosting the abundance of snails' natural predators. But little is known about the effect of parasitic infection on predator-prey interactions, especially in the case of schistosomiasis. Here, we present the results of laboratory experiments performed on Bulinus truncatus and Biomphalaria glabrata snails to investigate: (i) rates of predation on schistosome-infected versus uninfected snails by a sympatric native river prawn, Macrobrachium vollenhovenii, and (ii) differences in snail behavior (including movement, refuge-seeking and anti-predator behavior) between infected and uninfected snails. In predation trials, prawns showed a preference for consuming snails infected with schistosome larvae. In behavioral trials, infected snails moved less quickly and less often than uninfected snails, and were less likely to avoid predation by exiting the water or hiding under substrate. Although the mechanism by which the parasite alters snail behavior remains unknown, these results provide insight into the effects of parasitic infection on predator-prey dynamics and suggest that boosting natural rates of predation on snails may be a useful strategy for reducing transmission in schistosomiasis hotspots.
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- Scott J Swartz
- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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Levri EP, Clark TJ. Behavior in invasive New Zealand mud snails (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) is related to source population. Biol Invasions 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-014-0746-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Phenotypic plasticity of the introduced New Zealand mud snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum, compared to sympatric native snails. PLoS One 2014; 9:e93985. [PMID: 24699685 PMCID: PMC3974863 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2013] [Accepted: 03/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Phenotypic plasticity is likely to be important in determining the invasive potential of a species, especially if invasive species show greater plasticity or tolerance compared to sympatric native species. Here in two separate experiments we compare reaction norms in response to two environmental variables of two clones of the New Zealand mud snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum, isolated from the United States, (one invasive and one not yet invasive) with those of two species of native snails that are sympatric with the invader, Fossaria bulimoides group and Physella gyrina group. We placed juvenile snails in environments with high and low conductivity (300 and 800 mS) in one experiment, and raised them at two different temperatures (16°C and 22°C) in a second experiment. Growth rate and mortality were measured over the course of 8 weeks. Mortality rates were higher in the native snails compared to P. antipodarum across all treatments, and variation in conductivity influenced mortality. In both experiments, reaction norms did not vary significantly between species. There was little evidence that the success of the introduced species is a result of greater phenotypic plasticity to these variables compared to the sympatric native species.
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Manipulative parasites may not alter intermediate host distribution but still enhance their transmission: field evidence for increased vulnerability to definitive hosts and non-host predator avoidance. Parasitology 2012; 140:258-65. [PMID: 23068018 DOI: 10.1017/s0031182012001552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Behavioural alterations induced by parasites in their intermediate hosts can spatially structure host populations, possibly resulting in enhanced trophic transmission to definitive hosts. However, such alterations may also increase intermediate host vulnerability to non-host predators. Parasite-induced behavioural alterations may thus vary between parasite species and depend on each parasite definitive host species. We studied the influence of infection with 2 acanthocephalan parasites (Echinorhynchus truttae and Polymorphus minutus) on the distribution of the amphipod Gammarus pulex in the field. Predator presence or absence and predator species, whether suitable definitive host or dead-end predator, had no effect on the micro-distribution of infected or uninfected G. pulex amphipods. Although neither parasite species seem to influence intermediate host distribution, E. truttae infected G. pulex were still significantly more vulnerable to predation by fish (Cottus gobio), the parasite's definitive hosts. In contrast, G. pulex infected with P. minutus, a bird acanthocephalan, did not suffer from increased predation by C. gobio, a predator unsuitable as host for P. minutus. These results suggest that effects of behavioural changes associated with parasite infections might not be detectable until intermediate hosts actually come in contact with predators. However, parasite-induced changes in host spatial distribution may still be adaptive if they drive hosts into areas of high transmission probabilities.
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Cuhel RL, Aguilar C. Ecosystem transformations of the Laurentian Great Lake Michigan by nonindigenous biological invaders. ANNUAL REVIEW OF MARINE SCIENCE 2012; 5:289-320. [PMID: 22809179 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-120710-100952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Lake Michigan, a 58,000-km(2) freshwater inland sea, is large enough to have persistent basin-scale circulation yet small enough to enable development of approximately balanced budgets for water, energy, and elements including carbon and silicon. Introduction of nonindigenous species-whether through invasion, intentional stocking, or accidental transplantation-has transformed the lake's ecosystem function and habitat structure. Of the 79 nonindigenous species known to have established reproductive populations in the lake, only a few have brought considerable ecological pressure to bear. Four of these were chosen for this review to exemplify top-down (sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus), middle-out (alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus), and bottom-up (the dreissenid zebra and quagga mussels, Dreissena polymorpha and Dreissena rostriformis bugensis, respectively) transformations of Lake Michigan ecology, habitability, and ultimately physical environment. Lampreys attacked and extirpated indigenous lake trout, the top predator. Alewives outcompeted native planktivorous fish and curtailed invertebrate populations. Dreissenid mussels-especially quagga mussels, which have had a much greater impact than the preceding zebra mussels-moved ecosystem metabolism basin-wide from water column to bottom dominance and engineered structures throughout the lake. Each of these non indigenous species exerted devastating effects on commercial and sport fisheries through ecosystem structure modification.
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- Russell L Cuhel
- School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
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Twardochleb LA, Novak M, Moore JW. Using the functional response of a consumer to predict biotic resistance to invasive prey. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS : A PUBLICATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2012; 22:1162-1171. [PMID: 22827125 DOI: 10.1890/11-0871.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Predators sometimes provide biotic resistance against invasions by nonnative prey. Understanding and predicting the strength of biotic resistance remains a key challenge in invasion biology. A predator's functional response to nonnative prey may predict whether a predator can provide biotic resistance against nonnative prey at different prey densities. Surprisingly, functional responses have not been used to make quantitative predictions about biotic resistance. We parameterized the functional response of signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) to invasive New Zealand mud snails (Potamopyrgus antipodarum; NZMS) and used this functional response and a simple model of NZMS population growth to predict the probability of biotic resistance at different predator and prey densities. Signal crayfish were effective predators of NZMS, consuming more than 900 NZMS per predator in a 12-h period, and Bayesian model fitting indicated their consumption rate followed a type 3 functional response to NZMS density. Based on this functional response and associated parameter uncertainty, we predict that NZMS will be able to invade new systems at low crayfish densities (< 0.2 crayfish/m2) regardless of NZMS density. At intermediate to high crayfish densities (> 0.2 crayfish/m2), we predict that low densities of NZMS will be able to establish in new communities; however, once NZMS reach a threshold density of -2000 NZMS/m2, predation by crayfish will drive negative NZMS population growth. Further, at very high densities, NZMS overwhelm predation by crayfish and invade. Thus, interacting thresholds of propagule pressure and predator densities define the probability of biotic resistance. Quantifying the shape and uncertainty of predator functional responses to nonnative prey may help predict the outcomes of invasions.
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- Laura A Twardochleb
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA.
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Levri EP, Dubensky AN, Mears AS, Opiela CA. Interpopulation variation in predator avoidance behavior of a freshwater snail to the same predator. CAN J ZOOL 2012. [DOI: 10.1139/z2012-027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The New Zealand mud snail ( Potamopyrgus antipodarum (J.E. Grey, 1843)) responds to the presence of predatory fish by moving to a safer environment. These experiments attempted to determine if predator detection by the snail results in specific responses to light and (or) gravity by the snail and if snails respond more or less to fish from their native lake compared with fish from a foreign lake. Snails and fish (Gobiomorphus cotidianus McDowall, 1975) were collected from lakes Alexandrina and Peorua from the South Island of New Zealand. Snails were placed in behavioral chambers and tested for their responses to the direction of light, vertical orientation with respect to gravity, and rate of movement in light and dark conditions. Snails from each lake were exposed to one of three treatments: plain water, water from fish from Lake Alexandrina, and water from fish from Lake Peorua. Results showed no effect of direction of light on behavior. Snails from Lake Alexandrina were not found to alter their up or down movements in response to the detection of fish. However, snails from Lake Peorua moved down more in response to fish from their own lake than fish from Lake Alexandrina or no fish. Both snail populations increase their speed in the light more when detecting Alexandrina fish compared with Peorua fish and no fish. Both snail populations show some evidence of enhanced response to local predator populations. Interestingly, different behavioral mechanisms appear to be responsible for the avoidance behaviors in each population.
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- Edward P. Levri
- Department of Biology, Penn State – Altoona, 3000 Ivyside Park, Altoona, PA 16601, USA
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- Department of Biology, Penn State – Altoona, 3000 Ivyside Park, Altoona, PA 16601, USA
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- Department of Biology, Penn State – Altoona, 3000 Ivyside Park, Altoona, PA 16601, USA
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- Department of Biology, Penn State – Altoona, 3000 Ivyside Park, Altoona, PA 16601, USA
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Young aphids avoid erroneous dropping when evading mammalian herbivores by combining input from two sensory modalities. PLoS One 2012; 7:e32706. [PMID: 22496734 PMCID: PMC3322135 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2011] [Accepted: 02/02/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Mammalian herbivores may incidentally ingest plant-dwelling insects while foraging. Adult pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum) avoid this danger by dropping off their host plant after sensing the herbivore's warm and humid breath and the vibrations it causes while feeding. Aphid nymphs may also drop (to escape insect enemies), but because of their slow movement, have a lower chance of finding a new plant. We compared dropping rates of first-instar nymphs with those of adults, after exposing pea aphids to different combinations of simulated mammalian breath and vibrations. We hypothesized that nymphs would compensate for the greater risk they face on the ground by interpreting more conservatively the mammalian herbivore cues they perceive. Most adults dropped in response to breath alone, but nymphs rarely did so. Breath stimulus accompanied by one concurrent vibrational stimulus, caused a minor rise in adult dropping rates. Adding a second vibration during breath had no additional effect on adults. The nymphs, however, relied on a combination of the two types of stimuli, with a threefold increase in dropping rates when the breath was accompanied by one vibration, and a further doubling of dropping rates when the second vibration was added. The age-specificity of the aphids' herbivore detection mechanism is probably an adaptation to the different cost of dropping for the different age groups. Relying on a combination of stimuli from two sensory modalities enables the vulnerable nymphs to avoid costly mistakes. Our findings emphasize the importance of the direct trophic effect of mammalian herbivory for plant-dwelling insects.
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Médoc V, Beisel JN. When trophically-transmitted parasites combine predation enhancement with predation suppression to optimize their transmission. OIKOS 2011. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19585.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Preying on invasives: the exotic New Zealand mudsnail in the diet of the endangered tidewater goby. Biol Invasions 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-011-0054-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Orr MV, Hittel K, Lukowiak K. Predator detection enables juvenile Lymnaea to form long-term memory. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 213:301-7. [PMID: 20038665 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.032110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Learning and memory provide the flexibility an organism requires to respond to changing social and ecological conditions. Juvenile Lymnaea have previously been shown to have a diminished capacity to form long-term memory (LTM) following operant conditioning of aerial respiratory behavior. Juvenile Lymnaea, however, can form LTM following classical conditioning of appetitive behaviors. Here, we demonstrate that laboratory-reared juvenile Lymnaea have the ability to detect the presence of a sympatric predator (i.e. crayfish) and respond to the predator by altering their aerial respiratory behavior. In addition to increasing their total breathing time, predator detection confers on juvenile Lymnaea an enhanced capability to form LTM following operant conditioning of aerial respiratory behavior. That is, these juveniles now have the ability to form long-lasting memory. These data support the hypothesis that biologically relevant levels of stress associated with predator detection induce behavioral phenotypic alterations (i.e. enhanced LTM formation) in juveniles, which may increase their fitness. These data also support the notion that learning and memory formation in conjunction with predator detection is a form of inducible defense.
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- M V Orr
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 4N1
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A manipulative parasite increasing an antipredator response decreases its vulnerability to a nonhost predator. Anim Behav 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Das KP, Roy S, Chattopadhyay J. Effect of disease-selective predation on prey infected by contact and external sources. Biosystems 2009; 95:188-99. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2008.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2008] [Revised: 10/15/2008] [Accepted: 10/16/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Field evidence for non-host predator avoidance in a manipulated amphipod. Naturwissenschaften 2009; 96:513-23. [DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0503-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2008] [Revised: 12/05/2008] [Accepted: 12/08/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Lukowiak K, Martens K, Rosenegger D, Browning K, de Caigny P, Orr M. The perception of stress alters adaptive behaviours in Lymnaea stagnalis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 211:1747-56. [PMID: 18490390 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.014886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Stress can alter adaptive behaviours, and as well either enhance or diminish learning, memory formation and/or memory recall. We show here that two different stressors have the ability to alter such behaviours in our model system, Lymnaea stagnalis. One, a naturally occurring stressor - the scent of a predator (crayfish) - and the other an artificially controlled one - 25 mmol l(-1) KCl - significantly alter adaptive behaviours. Both the KCl stressor and predator detection enhance long-term memory (LTM) formation; additionally predator detection alters vigilance behaviours. The predator-induced changes in behaviour are also accompanied by specific and significant alterations in the electrophysiological properties of RPeD1 - a key neuron in mediating both vigilance behaviours and memory formation. Naive lab-bred snails exposed to crayfish effluent (CE; i.e. the scent of the predator) prior to recording from RPeD1 demonstrated both a significantly reduced spontaneous firing rate and fewer bouts of bursting activity compared with non-exposed snails. Importantly, in the CE experiments we used laboratory-reared snails that have not been exposed to a naturally occurring predator for over 250 generations. These data open a new avenue of research, which may allow a direct investigation from the behavioral to the neuronal level as to how relevant stressful stimuli alter adaptive behaviours, including memory formation and recall.
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- Ken Lukowiak
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Orr MV, El-Bekai M, Lui M, Watson K, Lukowiak K. Predator detection in Lymnaea stagnalis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 210:4150-8. [PMID: 18025014 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.010173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Laboratory-reared Lymnaea are capable of detecting and responding to the scent of a crayfish predator. The present investigation is a first attempt to characterize multiple stress-related behavioural responses resulting from predator detection and to depict the neurophysiological correlates of one of these illustrated behaviours. Snails respond to crayfish effluent (CE) by increasing the following behaviours: aerial respiration, exploratory/searching phase and sensitivity to the shadow-elicited full-body withdrawal response. In contrast, when snails detect CE they decrease both their righting response time when dislodged from the substratum and their basal cutaneous oxygen consumption. Interestingly, basal heart rate does not change in response to CE exposure. Finally, we directly measured the activity of the neuron that initiates aerial respiratory behaviour, RPeD1, in semi-intact preparations. Naïve snails exposed to CE prior to recording demonstrated both a significantly reduced spontaneous firing rate and fewer bouts of bursting activity compared with non-exposed snails. These data show that laboratory-reared Lymnaea that have never experienced a natural predator are still capable of detecting and responding to the presence of a historically sympatric predator. These data open a new avenue of research, which may allow a direct investigation from the behavioural to the neuronal level as to how an ecologically relevant stressful stimulus alters behaviour.
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- Michael V Orr
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 4N1
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Levri EP, Lunnen SJ, Itle CT, Mosquea L, Kinkade BV, Martin TG, DeLisser MA. PARASITE-INDUCED ALTERATION OF DIURNAL RHYTHMS IN A FRESHWATER SNAIL. J Parasitol 2007; 93:231-7. [PMID: 17539402 DOI: 10.1645/ge-933r1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The trematode Microphallus sp. alters the behavior of its snail intermediate host, Potamopyrgus antipodarum, in ways that seem to increase transmission to its final host, e.g., waterfowl, and decrease the probability of being eaten by other predators, e.g., fish. The parasite seems to cause the snail to move from the top to the bottom of rocks at about 0900 hr. Waterfowl feed predominantly before 0900 hr, and fish feed predominantly after 0900 hr. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that Microphallus sp.-infected snails exhibit a change in behavior at around 0900 hr by examining their response to light and vertical orientation before and after 0900 hr. Results demonstrated that uninfected snails generally move toward light, oriented downward, and move a greater distance in the light compared with the dark at all times of day. Microphallus sp.-infected snails behaved differently from uninfected snails in the early morning but similarly to uninfected snails in the late morning with regard to downward orientation and distance moved in response to light. Snails infected with parasites other than Microphallus sp. behaved similarly to uninfected snails during both time periods. These results suggest that Microphallus sp. manipulates the behavior of Potamopyrgus sp. by altering rates of movement in response to light and vertical orientation in a manner consistent with the hypothesized 0900-hr shift.
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- Edward P Levri
- Division of Math and Sciences, 3000 Ivyside Park, Penn State-Altoona, Altoona, Pennsylvania 16601, USA.
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Zbikowska E. Do larvae of Trichobilharzia szidati and Echinostoma revolutum generate behavioral fever in Lymnaea stagnalis individuals? Parasitol Res 2005; 97:68-72. [PMID: 15952039 DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-1394-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2005] [Accepted: 04/26/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The objective of this study was to determine whether individuals of Lymnaea stagnalis naturally parasitized with Trichobilharzia szidati and Echinostoma revolutum can generate the behavioral fever against larvae of those parasites. Thermal preferences of each snail were examined in an oblong thermal gradient during 48 h observation. Uninfected animals under study chose higher temperatures than those releasing cercariae of parasites. Infected snails kept in constant temperature lived shorter than uninfected ones. At high temperature, they released more cercariae per day than at low temperature. Temperature had a great influence on the longevity of emerged cercariae. The thermal behavior of infected snails is not a symptom of behavioral fever but probably can play a therapeutic role in the host.
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- Elzbieta Zbikowska
- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Institute of General and Molecular Biology, Nicholas Copernicus University, Gagarina 9, 87-100 Toruń, Poland.
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Levri EP, Dillard J, Martin T. Trematode infection correlates with shell shape and defence morphology in a freshwater snail. Parasitology 2005; 130:699-708. [PMID: 15977907 DOI: 10.1017/s0031182005007286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Parasitism often influences the phenotype of individuals. Many of the resulting changes are due to changes in resource allocation that come with infection. Here we examine the effect of a trematode parasite on the shape and defence morphology of a New Zealand freshwater snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum. The trematode Microphallus sp. asexually produces hundreds of metacercarial cysts in the snail. The length, width and 2-dimensional area of each snail were measured. Snails were also assessed for their degree of spininess. Snails were dissected to determine gender, brooding condition and parasitism. Snails infected with Microphallus sp. were found to be significantly less spiny than uninfected snails. Microphallus-infected snails were also found to have a significantly greater width to length ratio at larger sizes than their uninfected counterparts. These trends could be explained in at least 3 ways. (1) Infection causes the snails to not produce spines and to become wider. (2) Spiny and narrower snails are more likely to die when they become infected. (3) Spiny and narrower snails are more resistant to infection. The changes in phenotype observed are unlikely to be adaptive for either the host or parasite and probably represent physiological by-products of the host-parasite relationship.
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- E P Levri
- Division of Math and Sciences, 3000 Ivyside Park, Penn State-Altoona, Altoona, PA 16601, USA.
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Bernot RJ. Trematode infection alters the antipredator behavior of a pulmonate snail. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.2307/1467995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Randall J. Bernot
- Division of Biology, 232 Ackert Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506 USA
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Rundle SD, Brönmark C. Inter- and intraspecific trait compensation of defence mechanisms in freshwater snails. Proc Biol Sci 2001; 268:1463-8. [PMID: 11454289 PMCID: PMC1088764 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Trait compensation occurs when mechanically independent adaptations are negatively correlated. Here, we report the first study to demonstrate trait compensation in predator-defence adaptations across several species. Freshwater pulmonate snails exposed experimentally to predation chemical cues from fishes and crushed conspecifics showed clear interspecific differences in their behavioural avoidance responses, which were negatively correlated with shell crush resistance. The type of avoidance response varied between species: thin-shelled species (Lymnaea stagnalis and Physa fontinalis) moved to the water-line or out of the water, while those with thick shells moved under cover or showed a mixed response. There were also intraspecific size-linked differences, with an ontogenetic increase in shell strength accompanied by a decrease in behavioural avoidance. Such trait compensation in response to predation has important implications for interspecific interactions and food-web dynamics.
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- S D Rundle
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK.
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