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Patterns of Distribution of the Helminth Parasites of Freshwater Fishes of Mexico

In order to draw patterns in helminth parasite composition and species richness in Mexican freshwater fishes we analyse a presence-absence matrix representing every species of adult helminth parasites of freshwater fishes from 23 Mexican hydrological basins. We examine the distributional patterns of...

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Autores principales: Quiroz-Martínez, Benjamín, Salgado-Maldonado, Guillermo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3554625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23359347
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054787
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description In order to draw patterns in helminth parasite composition and species richness in Mexican freshwater fishes we analyse a presence-absence matrix representing every species of adult helminth parasites of freshwater fishes from 23 Mexican hydrological basins. We examine the distributional patterns of the helminth parasites with regard to the main hydrological basins of the country, and in doing so we identify areas of high diversity and point out the biotic similarities and differences among drainage basins. Our dataset allows us to evaluate the relationships among drainage basins in terms of helminth diversity. This paper shows that the helminth fauna of freshwater fishes of Mexico can characterise hydrological basins the same way as fish families do, and that the basins of south-eastern Mexico are home to a rich, predominantly Neotropical, helminth fauna whereas the basins of the Mexican Highland Plateau and the Nearctic area of Mexico harbour a less diverse Nearctic fauna, following the same pattern of distribution of their fish host families. The composition of the helminth fauna of each particular basin depends on the structure of the fish community rather than on the limnological characteristics and geographical position of the basin itself. This work shows distance decay of similarity and a clear linkage between host and parasite distributions.
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spelling pubmed-35546252013-01-28 Patterns of Distribution of the Helminth Parasites of Freshwater Fishes of Mexico Quiroz-Martínez, Benjamín Salgado-Maldonado, Guillermo PLoS One Research Article In order to draw patterns in helminth parasite composition and species richness in Mexican freshwater fishes we analyse a presence-absence matrix representing every species of adult helminth parasites of freshwater fishes from 23 Mexican hydrological basins. We examine the distributional patterns of the helminth parasites with regard to the main hydrological basins of the country, and in doing so we identify areas of high diversity and point out the biotic similarities and differences among drainage basins. Our dataset allows us to evaluate the relationships among drainage basins in terms of helminth diversity. This paper shows that the helminth fauna of freshwater fishes of Mexico can characterise hydrological basins the same way as fish families do, and that the basins of south-eastern Mexico are home to a rich, predominantly Neotropical, helminth fauna whereas the basins of the Mexican Highland Plateau and the Nearctic area of Mexico harbour a less diverse Nearctic fauna, following the same pattern of distribution of their fish host families. The composition of the helminth fauna of each particular basin depends on the structure of the fish community rather than on the limnological characteristics and geographical position of the basin itself. This work shows distance decay of similarity and a clear linkage between host and parasite distributions. Public Library of Science 2013-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3554625/ /pubmed/23359347 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054787 Text en © 2013 Quiroz-Martínez, Salgado-Maldonado http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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title_short Patterns of Distribution of the Helminth Parasites of Freshwater Fishes of Mexico
title_sort patterns of distribution of the helminth parasites of freshwater fishes of mexico
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3554625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23359347
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054787
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