A5065218507- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Parasites and Host Interactions
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Marine and fisheries research
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Gut microbiota and health
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Date Palm Research Studies
- Marine Sponges and Natural Products
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Agriculture and Agroindustry Studies
- Phytochemistry and biological activities of Ficus species
- Helminth infection and control
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
2012-2023
University of Groningen
2023
Université de Bordeaux
2020-2021
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2020-2021
Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux
2019-2021
Utrecht University
2015-2020
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2016
Abstract Aquaculture is a promising source of fish and other aquatic organisms to ensure human food security but it comes at the price diverse environmental impacts. Among others, these include diseases which often thrive under conditions in aquaculture settings can cause high economic losses. These may also affect wildlife, however, impacts on disease dynamics wild species surrounding ecosystems are poorly understood. In this Review, we provide conceptual framework for studying effects...
Unveiling the factors and processes that shape dynamics of host associated microbial communities (microbiota) under natural conditions is an important part understanding predicting organism's response to a changing environment. The microbiota shaped by (i.e., genetic) as well biotic abiotic Studying variation community composition in multiple genetic backgrounds across spatial temporal scales represents means untangle this complex interplay. Here, we combined spatially-stratified with...
Coastal habitats provide many important ecosystem services. The substantial role of shellfish in delivering services is increasingly recognised, usually with a focus on cultured species, but wild-harvested bivalve species have largely been ignored. This study aimed to collate evidence and data demonstrate the played by Europe's main common cockle Cerastoderma edule, assess that cockles provide. Data information are synthesised from five countries along Atlantic European coast long history...
Climate change is expected to affect disease risk in many parasite‐host systems, e.g., via an effect of temperature on infectivity (temperature effects). However, recent studies indicate that ambient communities can lower for hosts, instance predation free‐living stages parasites (predation effect). Since general physiological theory suggests effects be temperature‐dependent, we hypothesized increases may lead reduced parasite elevated consumption rates (temperature‐predation interaction)....
Host–parasite coevolution has rarely been observed in natural systems. Its study often relies on microparasitic infections introducing a potential bias the estimation of evolutionary change host and parasite traits. Using biological invasions as tool to host–parasite nature can overcome these biases. We demonstrate this with cross-infection experiment invasive macroparasite Mytilicola intestinalis its bivalve host, blue mussel Mytilus edulis. The invasion history is well known for...
Stable isotopes are widely used to identify trophic interactions and determine positions of organisms in food webs. Comparative studies have provided general insights into the variation isotopic composition between consumers their diet (discrimination factors) predator–prey herbivore–plant relationships while other major components webs such as host–parasite been largely overlooked. In this study, we conducted a literature‐based comparative analysis using phylogenetically‐controlled mixed...
An introduced species' invasion success may be facilitated by the release of natural enemies, like parasites, which provide an invader with a competitive advantage over native species (enemy hypothesis).Lower parasite infection levels in versus populations have been well documented.However, any potential will depend on whether competitors exhibit higher loads than hosts and suffer more (e.g., reduced reproduction or growth) from infections hosts.In this study, we compared macroparasite...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 545:215-225 (2016) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11594 Tidal elevation and parasitism: patterns of infection by rhizocephalan parasite Sacculina carcini in shore crabs Carcinus maenas Andreas M. Waser1,2,*, Anouk Goedknegt1,2, Rob Dekker1, Niamh McSweeney1, Johannes IJ. Witte1, Jaap van der Meer1,2,...
Parasites can play various roles in the invasion of non-native species, but these are still understudied marine ecosystems. This also applies to invasions from Red Sea Mediterranean via Suez Canal, so-called Lessepsian migration. In this study, we investigated role parasites migrant Sphyraena chrysotaenia Tunisian Sea.We compared metazoan parasite richness, prevalence and intensity S. (Perciformes: Sphyraenidae) with infections its native congener sphyraena by sampling fish species at seven...
Abstract Invasive species, and especially invasive parasites, represent excellent models to study ecological evolutionary mechanisms in the wild. To understand these processes, it is crucial obtain more knowledge on native range, invasion routes history of parasites. We investigated consecutive invasions two parasitic copepods ( Mytilicola intestinalis orientalis ) by combining an extensive literature survey covering reported putative regions present-day invaded with a global phylogeography...
Abstract Invasive parasites can spill over to new hosts in invaded ecosystems with often unpredictable trophic relationships the newly arising parasite-host interactions. In European seas, intestinal copepod Mytilicola orientalis was co-introduced Pacific oysters ( Magallana gigas ) and spilled native blue mussels Mytilus edulis ), negative impacts on condition of infected mussels. However, whether parasite feeds host tissue and/or stomach contents is yet unknown. To answer this question, we...
Despite their frequent occurrence and strong impacts on native biota, biological invasions can long remain undetected. One reason for this is that an invasive species be morphologically similar to either or introduced previously established in the same region, thus subject mistaken identification. recent case involves congeneric parasites, copepods now infect bivalve hosts along European Atlantic coasts, after having been independently first from Mediterranean Sea (Mytilicola intestinalis...
Invasive species can indirectly affect native by modifying parasite–host dynamics and disease occurrence. This scenario applies to European coastal waters where the invasive Pacific oyster (Magallana gigas) co-introduced parasitic copepod Mytilicola orientalis that spills over blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) other bivalves. In this study, we investigated impact of M. infections on conducting laboratory experiments using controlled with larval stages copepod. As is likely depend mussels' food...
Abstract Coastal systems provide many cultural ecosystem services (CES) to humans. Fewer studies have focused solely on CES, while those comparing CES across countries are even rarer. In the case of shellfish, considerable focus has been placed nutrient remediation, with relatively little provided, despite strong historical, cultural, social and economic links between shellfish coastal communities. The provided by common cockle, Cerastoderma edule , recently described, yet benefits from...
A better understanding of growth drivers in shellfish populations including the common cockle Cerastoderma edule is essential, as their future challenged by unsustainable fishing practices and climate change. In this study spatial temporal variabilities across latitudes were assessed compared with historical data. Six locations examined at bimonthly intervals over 19 months; three Irish, two Welsh one French, spanning 54°N to 44°N. The results demonstrated that local abiotic biotic factors...