caa a22 4500 469097450 CHVBK 20180323133035.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00317248 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00317248 The parasites of Anolis lizards in the northern Lesser Antilles [Elektronische Daten] I. Patterns of distribution and abundance [A. Dobson, S. Pacala, J. Roughgarden, E. Carper, E. Harris] Summary: The helminth communities from ten species of lizard on seven islands in the Caribbean were sampled by collecting one hundred specimens of each species. Nine genera of parasites were identified; these included six nematodes, two digeneans and an acanthocephalan. No relationship was discernible between parasite density or abundance and island area or altitude, although dry islands tend to have fewer species of parasites. Anolis lizards of the bimaculatus and wattsi series share similar parasites with four out of nine species common to both series. The parasite community of lizards on these islands is depauperate with respect to similar surveys on the larger islands of the Greater Antilles. On three of the islands lizards were sub-sampled by collecting from moist woodland and more xeric habitats. These data suggest that differences between habitats are as significant as differences between islands in determining parasite burdens. Worm burdens of the commonest parasite species, T. cubensis, increased monotonically with host body size and no evidence was found to suggest that these parasites affect either host survival or fecundity. The sex-ratio of this species correlated with mean abundance of the parasite, with females the dominant sex on islands or in habitats where the parasite was common. This pattern may reflect haplodiploid sexual determination in this species. Springer-Verlag, 1992 Anolis nationallicence Lizards nationallicence Parasites nationallicence Islands nationallicence Dobson A. Department of Biology, University of Rochester, 14627, Rochester, NY, USA aut Pacala S. Ecology Section, Biological Sciences Group, University of Connecticut, 06268, Storrs, CN, USA aut Roughgarden J. Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, 94305, Stanford, CA, USA aut Carper E. Department of Biology, Princeton University, 08544, Princeton, NJ, USA aut Harris E. Parasitic Worms Section, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD, London, UK aut Oecologia Springer-Verlag 91/1(1992-08-01), 110-117 0029-8549 91:1<110 1992 91 442 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00317248 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00317248 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dobson A. Department of Biology, University of Rochester, 14627, Rochester, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pacala S. Ecology Section, Biological Sciences Group, University of Connecticut, 06268, Storrs, CN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Roughgarden J. Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, 94305, Stanford, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Carper E. Department of Biology, Princeton University, 08544, Princeton, NJ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Harris E. Parasitic Worms Section, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Oecologia Springer-Verlag 91/1(1992-08-01), 110-117 0029-8549 91:1<110 1992 91 442 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer