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The role of seabirds of the Iles Eparses as reservoirs and disseminators of parasites and pathogens
The role of birds as reservoirs and disseminators of parasites and pathogens has received much attention over the past several years due to their high vagility. Seabirds are particularly interesting hosts in this respect. In addition to incredible long-distance movements during migration, foraging a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7128210/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32288503 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2015.12.013 |
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author | McCoy, Karen D. Dietrich, Muriel Jaeger, Audrey Wilkinson, David A. Bastien, Matthieu Lagadec, Erwan Boulinier, Thierry Pascalis, Hervé Tortosa, Pablo Le Corre, Matthieu Dellagi, Koussay Lebarbenchon, Camille |
author_facet | McCoy, Karen D. Dietrich, Muriel Jaeger, Audrey Wilkinson, David A. Bastien, Matthieu Lagadec, Erwan Boulinier, Thierry Pascalis, Hervé Tortosa, Pablo Le Corre, Matthieu Dellagi, Koussay Lebarbenchon, Camille |
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description | The role of birds as reservoirs and disseminators of parasites and pathogens has received much attention over the past several years due to their high vagility. Seabirds are particularly interesting hosts in this respect. In addition to incredible long-distance movements during migration, foraging and prospecting, these birds are long-lived, site faithful and breed in dense aggregations in specific colony locations. These different characteristics can favor both the local maintenance and large-scale dissemination of parasites and pathogens. The Iles Eparses provide breeding and feeding grounds for more than 3 million breeding pairs of seabirds including at least 13 species. Breeding colonies on these islands are relatively undisturbed by human activities and represent natural metapopulations in which seabird population dynamics, movement and dispersal can be studied in relation to that of circulating parasites and pathogens. In this review, we summarize previous knowledge and recently-acquired data on the parasites and pathogens found in association with seabirds of the Iles Eparses. These studies have revealed the presence of a rich diversity of infectious agents (viruses, bacteria and parasites) carried by the birds and/or their local ectoparasites (ticks and louse flies). Many of these agents are widespread and found in other ecosystems confirming a role for seabirds in their large scale dissemination and maintenance. The heterogeneous distribution of parasites and infectious agents among islands and seabird species suggests that relatively independent metacommunities of interacting species may exist within the western Indian Ocean. In this context, we discuss how the patterns and determinants of seabird movements may alter parasite and pathogen circulation. We conclude by outlining key aspects for future research given the baseline data now available and current concerns in eco-epidemiology and biodiversity conservation. |
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spelling | pubmed-71282102020-04-08 The role of seabirds of the Iles Eparses as reservoirs and disseminators of parasites and pathogens McCoy, Karen D. Dietrich, Muriel Jaeger, Audrey Wilkinson, David A. Bastien, Matthieu Lagadec, Erwan Boulinier, Thierry Pascalis, Hervé Tortosa, Pablo Le Corre, Matthieu Dellagi, Koussay Lebarbenchon, Camille Acta Oecol (Montrouge) Article The role of birds as reservoirs and disseminators of parasites and pathogens has received much attention over the past several years due to their high vagility. Seabirds are particularly interesting hosts in this respect. In addition to incredible long-distance movements during migration, foraging and prospecting, these birds are long-lived, site faithful and breed in dense aggregations in specific colony locations. These different characteristics can favor both the local maintenance and large-scale dissemination of parasites and pathogens. The Iles Eparses provide breeding and feeding grounds for more than 3 million breeding pairs of seabirds including at least 13 species. Breeding colonies on these islands are relatively undisturbed by human activities and represent natural metapopulations in which seabird population dynamics, movement and dispersal can be studied in relation to that of circulating parasites and pathogens. In this review, we summarize previous knowledge and recently-acquired data on the parasites and pathogens found in association with seabirds of the Iles Eparses. These studies have revealed the presence of a rich diversity of infectious agents (viruses, bacteria and parasites) carried by the birds and/or their local ectoparasites (ticks and louse flies). Many of these agents are widespread and found in other ecosystems confirming a role for seabirds in their large scale dissemination and maintenance. The heterogeneous distribution of parasites and infectious agents among islands and seabird species suggests that relatively independent metacommunities of interacting species may exist within the western Indian Ocean. In this context, we discuss how the patterns and determinants of seabird movements may alter parasite and pathogen circulation. We conclude by outlining key aspects for future research given the baseline data now available and current concerns in eco-epidemiology and biodiversity conservation. Elsevier Masson SAS. 2016-04 2016-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7128210/ /pubmed/32288503 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2015.12.013 Text en Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article McCoy, Karen D. Dietrich, Muriel Jaeger, Audrey Wilkinson, David A. Bastien, Matthieu Lagadec, Erwan Boulinier, Thierry Pascalis, Hervé Tortosa, Pablo Le Corre, Matthieu Dellagi, Koussay Lebarbenchon, Camille The role of seabirds of the Iles Eparses as reservoirs and disseminators of parasites and pathogens |
title | The role of seabirds of the Iles Eparses as reservoirs and disseminators of parasites and pathogens |
title_full | The role of seabirds of the Iles Eparses as reservoirs and disseminators of parasites and pathogens |
title_fullStr | The role of seabirds of the Iles Eparses as reservoirs and disseminators of parasites and pathogens |
title_full_unstemmed | The role of seabirds of the Iles Eparses as reservoirs and disseminators of parasites and pathogens |
title_short | The role of seabirds of the Iles Eparses as reservoirs and disseminators of parasites and pathogens |
title_sort | role of seabirds of the iles eparses as reservoirs and disseminators of parasites and pathogens |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7128210/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32288503 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2015.12.013 |
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