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How climate change affects parasites: the case of trematode parasite Clinostomum complanatum and its fish host Trichogaster fasiatus

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Abstract

This study was undertaken to understand the impact of climate change on the ecology of infection of Clinostomum complanatum, a model trematode parasite. We analysed climate change data and data from infected fish over a period of seven years (2007–2013) from the Aligarh region (India) in this retrospective study. We show that infection of the trematode parasite Clinostomum complanatum (Rudolphi, 1814) in the forage fish Trichogaster facsiatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) is dependent on surface air temperature amongst the (ecologically) relevant climate change variables for both the parasite and its host. This study is the first to implicate surface air temperature as an environmental variable that may contribute towards parasitism, particularly for parasites with a piscine host. The biological relevance of changing climate on the ecology of this parasite is discussed.

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  1. Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

    Asim Rizvi & Imrana Naseem

  2. Department of Wildlife Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

    Rohit Chaudhary

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

    Minza Haider

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This study was “exempt” from the Ethical Committee of the Department of Biochemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, since it was a retrospective study and no animals were used or procured for this study.

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Rizvi, A., Chaudhary, R., Haider, M. et al. How climate change affects parasites: the case of trematode parasite Clinostomum complanatum and its fish host Trichogaster fasiatus. J Parasit Dis 44, 476–480 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12639-020-01214-8

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