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  • Ecology
  • Parasitology
  • Climate Change Biology

Background:

  • Parasites are crucial for aquatic ecosystem regulation.
  • Climate warming's effects on parasite ecology and disease transmission are not well understood.
  • Warming impacts are complex due to multiple species interactions and varied thermal responses.

Approach:

  • A common garden experiment used a mosquito species and its facultative parasite.
  • Parasite growth and infection rates were measured across seven temperatures.
  • Twelve field-collected parasite populations and one mosquito population were analyzed.

Key Points:

  • Parasite free-living growth and infection rates varied significantly with temperature.
  • Optimal temperatures for growth (18-24.5°C) and infection (13°C) differed.
  • Intraspecific variation in thermal optima for parasite growth suggests local adaptation to warmer environments.

Conclusions:

  • Parasite population and temperature interact nonlinearly, affecting infection rates.
  • Predicting climate change impacts on disease requires considering host and parasite thermal responses.
  • Intraspecific variation in thermal responses is critical for understanding disease dynamics in changing climates.