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Streicker DG, Fenton A, Pedersen AB. Corrigendum to Streicker et al. (2013) Differential sources of host species heterogeneity influence the transmission and control of multi-host parasites. Ecol Lett. 2015;18(10):1134-7doi: 10.1111/ele.12477.
Streicker, D. G., Fenton, A., & Pedersen, A. B. (2015). Corrigendum to Streicker et al. (2013) Differential sources of host species heterogeneity influence the transmission and control of multi-host parasites. Ecology letters, 18(10), 1134-7. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12477
Streicker, Daniel G, et al. "Corrigendum to Streicker et al. (2013) Differential sources of host species heterogeneity influence the transmission and control of multi-host parasites." Ecology letters vol. 18,10 (2015): 1134-7. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12477
Streicker DG, Fenton A, Pedersen AB. Corrigendum to Streicker et al. (2013) Differential sources of host species heterogeneity influence the transmission and control of multi-host parasites. Ecol Lett. 2015 Oct;18(10):1134-7. doi: 10.1111/ele.12477. PMID: 26346689; PMCID: PMC6886588.
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Ecol Lett. 2015 Oct;18(10):1134-7. doi: 10.1111/ele.12477.

Corrigendum to Streicker et al. (2013) Differential sources of host species heterogeneity influence the transmission and control of multi-host parasites.

Ecology letters

Daniel G Streicker, Andy Fenton, Amy B Pedersen

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health, and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK.
  2. MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, G61 1QH, UK.
  3. Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZB, UK.
  4. Centre for Infection, Immunity and Evolution & Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Science, University of Edinburgh, Kings Buildings Ashworth Labs, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, UK.

PMID: 26346689 PMCID: PMC6886588 DOI: 10.1111/ele.12477

Abstract

In a recent article, we described a conceptual and analytical model to identify the key host species for parasite transmission in multi-host communities and used data from 11 gastro-intestinal parasites infecting up to five small mammal host species as an illustrative example of how the framework could be applied. A limitation of these empirical data was uncertainty in the identification of parasite species using egg/oocyst morphology, which could overestimate parasite sharing between host species. Here, we show that the key results of the original analysis, namely that (1) parasites naturally infect multiple host species, but typically rely on a small subset of infected host species for long-term maintenance, (2) that different mechanisms underlie how particular host species dominate transmission and (3) that these different mechanisms influence the predicted efficiency of disease control measures, are robust to analysis of a smaller subset of host-parasite combinations that we have greatest confidence in identifying. We further comment briefly on the need for accurate parasite identification, ideally using molecular techniques to quantify cross-species transmission and differentiate covert host specificity from true host generalism.

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS.

References

  1. Ecol Lett. 2013 Aug;16(8):975-84 - PubMed

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