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Taxonomic partitioning shedding light on the diversification of parasite communities
Author(s) -
Mouillot David,
Poulin Robert
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
oikos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.672
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1600-0706
pISSN - 0030-1299
DOI - 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.12833.x
Subject(s) - biology , parasite hosting , species richness , mammal , ecology , diversification (marketing strategy) , host (biology) , zoology , fish <actinopterygii> , genetic algorithm , fishery , marketing , world wide web , computer science , business
Power relations were used for 297 parasite communities of fish, bird and mammal hosts between the number of genera (G) and the number of species (S) per community to test for the relative importance of different processes in their diversification. For the bird hosts the relation was G∝S 0.92 , and for fish hosts it was G∝S 0.97 , but for mammal hosts, the number of parasite genera increases more slowly as a function of species richness (G∝S 0.83 ), suggesting, among other possibilities, a higher rate of within‐host parasite speciation in mammals than in other vertebrates.