Host species composition influences infection severity among amphibians in the absence of spillover transmission
dc.contributor.author | Han, Barbara A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Kerby, Jacob L. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Searle, Catherine L. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Storfer, Andrew | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Blaustein, Andrew R. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-04T20:36:51Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-05-10T20:26:28Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2015-04 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Han, Barbara A.; Kerby, Jacob L.; Searle, Catherine L.; Storfer, Andrew; Blaustein, Andrew R. (2015). "Host species composition influences infection severity among amphibians in the absence of spillover transmission." Ecology and Evolution 5(7): 1432-1439. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2045-7758 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2045-7758 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/111214 | |
dc.description.abstract | Wildlife epidemiological outcomes can depend strongly on the composition of an ecological community, particularly when multiple host species are affected by the same pathogen. However, the relationship between host species richness and disease risk can vary with community context and with the degree of spillover transmission that occurs among co‐occurring host species. We examined the degree to which host species composition influences infection by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), a widespread fungal pathogen associated with amphibian population declines around the world, and whether transmission occurs from one highly susceptible host species to other co‐occurring host species. By manipulating larval assemblages of three sympatric amphibian species in the laboratory, we characterized the relationship between host species richness and infection severity, whether infection mediates growth and survivorship differently across various combinations of host species, and whether Bd is transmitted from experimentally inoculated tadpoles to uninfected tadpoles. We found evidence of a dilution effect where Bd infection severity was dramatically reduced in the most susceptible of the three host species (Anaxyrus boreas). Infection also mediated survival and growth of all three host species such that the presence of multiple host species had both positive (e.g., infection reduction) and negative (e.g., mortality) effects on focal species. However, we found no evidence that Bd infection is transmitted by this species. While these results demonstrate that host species richness as well as species identity underpin infection dynamics in this system, dilution is not the product of reduced transmission via fewer infectious individuals of a susceptible host species. We discuss various mechanisms, including encounter reduction and antagonistic interactions such as competition and opportunistic cannibalism that may act in concert to mediate patterns of infection severity, growth, and mortality observed in multihost communities.There are many ways in which infection can be influenced by species diversity. Here we show experimentally that the interactions between species in a multi‐host amphibian community drive the severity of infection by the amphibian chytrid fungus. We find no evidence that infection is transmitted between two host species in our study, suggesting that spillover infection is not a cause of dilution effects in this system. | en_US |
dc.publisher | R Foundation for Statistical Computing | en_US |
dc.publisher | Wiley Periodicals, Inc. | en_US |
dc.subject.other | disease risk | en_US |
dc.subject.other | diversity‐disease | en_US |
dc.subject.other | tadpole | en_US |
dc.subject.other | community structure | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Batrachochytrium | en_US |
dc.subject.other | chytridiomycosis | en_US |
dc.subject.other | biodiversity | en_US |
dc.subject.other | dilution effect | en_US |
dc.title | Host species composition influences infection severity among amphibians in the absence of spillover transmission | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/111214/1/ece31385.pdf | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/111214/2/ece31385-sup-0001-FigureS1.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/ece3.1385 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Ecology and Evolution | en_US |
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