| The costs and benefits in an unusual symbiosis: experimental evidence that bitterling fish (Rhodeus sericeus) are parasites of unionid mussels in Europe | |
| Reichard, M; Ondrackova, M; Przybylski, M; Liu, H; Smith, C; Reichard, M, Acad Sci Czech Republ, Inst Vertebrate Biol, Kvetna 8, CS-60365 Brno, Czech Republic | |
| 2006-05-01 | |
| Source Publication | JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
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| ISSN | 1010-061X |
| Volume | 19Issue:3Pages:788-796 |
| Abstract | Interspecific symbiotic relationships involve a complex network of interactions, and understanding their outcome requires quantification of the costs and benefits to both partners. We experimentally investigated the costs and benefits in the relationship between European bitterling fish (Rhodeus sericeus) and freshwater mussels that are used by R. sericeus for oviposition. This relationship has hitherto been thought mutualistic, on the premise that R. sericeus use mussels as foster parents of their embryos while mussels use R. sericeus as hosts for their larvae. We demonstrate that R. sericeus is a parasite of European mussels, because it (i) avoids the cost of infection by mussel larvae and (ii) imposes a direct cost on mussels. Our experiments also indicate a potential coevolutionary arms race between bitterling fishes and their mussel hosts; the outcome of this relationship may differ between Asia, the centre of distribution of bitterling fishes, and Europe where they have recently invaded.; Interspecific symbiotic relationships involve a complex network of interactions, and understanding their outcome requires quantification of the costs and benefits to both partners. We experimentally investigated the costs and benefits in the relationship between European bitterling fish (Rhodeus sericeus) and freshwater mussels that are used by R. sericeus for oviposition. This relationship has hitherto been thought mutualistic, on the premise that R. sericeus use mussels as foster parents of their embryos while mussels use R. sericeus as hosts for their larvae. We demonstrate that R. sericeus is a parasite of European mussels, because it (i) avoids the cost of infection by mussel larvae and (ii) imposes a direct cost on mussels. Our experiments also indicate a potential coevolutionary arms race between bitterling fishes and their mussel hosts; the outcome of this relationship may differ between Asia, the centre of distribution of bitterling fishes, and Europe where they have recently invaded. |
| Subtype | Article |
| Keyword | Brood Parasitism Coevolution Fitness Glochidia Growth Mutualism Oviposition Symbiosis Unionidae |
| Department | Acad Sci Czech Republ, Inst Vertebrate Biol, CS-60365 Brno, Czech Republic; Univ Leicester, Dept Biol, Leicester, Leics, England; Univ Lodz, Dept Ecol & Vertebrate Zool, PL-90131 Lodz, Poland; Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Hydrobiol, Wuhan, Peoples R China |
| Subject Area | Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology ; Genetics & Heredity |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.01051.x |
| WOS Headings | Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS Research Area | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology ; Genetics & Heredity |
| WOS Subject | Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology ; Genetics & Heredity |
| WOS ID | WOS:000236943000012 |
| WOS Keyword | COWBIRD PARASITISM ; PROXIMATE CUE ; SELECTION ; POPULATIONS ; COMPETITION ; BIVALVIA ; ECOLOGY ; CHOICE |
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| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.ihb.ac.cn/handle/152342/8992 |
| Collection | 期刊论文 |
| Corresponding Author | Reichard, M, Acad Sci Czech Republ, Inst Vertebrate Biol, Kvetna 8, CS-60365 Brno, Czech Republic |
| Affiliation | 1.Acad Sci Czech Republic, Inst Vertebrate Biol, CS-60365 Brno, Czech Republic 2.Univ Leicester, Dept Biol, Leicester, Leics, England 3.Univ Lodz, Dept Ecol & Vertebrate Zool, PL-90131 Lodz, Poland 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Hydrobiol, Wuhan, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Reichard, M,Ondrackova, M,Przybylski, M,et al. The costs and benefits in an unusual symbiosis: experimental evidence that bitterling fish (Rhodeus sericeus) are parasites of unionid mussels in Europe[J]. JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY,2006,19(3):788-796. |
| APA | Reichard, M,Ondrackova, M,Przybylski, M,Liu, H,Smith, C,&Reichard, M, Acad Sci Czech Republ, Inst Vertebrate Biol, Kvetna 8, CS-60365 Brno, Czech Republic.(2006).The costs and benefits in an unusual symbiosis: experimental evidence that bitterling fish (Rhodeus sericeus) are parasites of unionid mussels in Europe.JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY,19(3),788-796. |
| MLA | Reichard, M,et al."The costs and benefits in an unusual symbiosis: experimental evidence that bitterling fish (Rhodeus sericeus) are parasites of unionid mussels in Europe".JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 19.3(2006):788-796. |
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