caa a22 4500 46909883X CHVBK 20180323133039.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00317176 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00317176 Can host body size explain the parasite species richness in tropical freshwater fishes? [Elektronische Daten] [Jean-François Guégan, Alain Lambert, Christian Lévêque, Claude Combes, Louis Euzet] Summary: The variability of monogenean gill ectoparasite species richness in 19 West African cyprinid species was analyzed using the following seven predictor variables: host size, number of drainage basins, number of sympatric cyprinid species, host diversity, association with mainland forest, host ecology, and monogenean biological labelling. The size of the host species accounted for 77% of the variation in the number of parasite species per host, and host ecology an additional 8%. Together the effects of host size and host ecology accounted for 85% of the variation in monogenean species richness. This study shows that the deciding factors for explaining monogenean species richness in West African cyprinid fishes are host species size and host ecology. These results were compared with main factors responsible for parasite species richness in fish communities. Other possible explanations of monogenean community structure in west African cyprinids are discussed. Springer-Verlag, 1992 Species richness nationallicence Parasite communities nationallicence Freshwater fish nationallicence Body size nationallicence West Africa nationallicence Guégan Jean-François Antenne ORSTOM, Laboratoire d'Ichtyologie générale et appliquée, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 43 rue Cuvier, F-75231, Paris 105, France aut Lambert Alain Laboratoire de Parasitologie Comparée, U.R.A. C.N.R.S. 698, case 105, Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, place Eugène Bataillon, F-34095, Montpellier, France aut Lévêque Christian Antenne ORSTOM, Laboratoire d'Ichtyologie générale et appliquée, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 43 rue Cuvier, F-75231, Paris 105, France aut Combes Claude Laboratoire de Biologie Animale, U.R.A. C.N.R.S. 698, Centre de Biologie et d'Ecologie tropicale et méditerranéenne, Université de Perpignan, Avenue de Villeneuve, F-66025, Perpignan, France aut Euzet Louis Laboratoire de Parasitologie Comparée, U.R.A. C.N.R.S. 698, case 105, Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, place Eugène Bataillon, F-34095, Montpellier, France aut Oecologia Springer-Verlag 90/2(1992-05-01), 197-204 0029-8549 90:2<197 1992 90 442 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00317176 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00317176 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Guégan Jean-François Antenne ORSTOM, Laboratoire d'Ichtyologie générale et appliquée, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 43 rue Cuvier, F-75231, Paris 105, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lambert Alain Laboratoire de Parasitologie Comparée, U.R.A. C.N.R.S. 698, case 105, Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, place Eugène Bataillon, F-34095, Montpellier, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lévêque Christian Antenne ORSTOM, Laboratoire d'Ichtyologie générale et appliquée, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 43 rue Cuvier, F-75231, Paris 105, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Combes Claude Laboratoire de Biologie Animale, U.R.A. C.N.R.S. 698, Centre de Biologie et d'Ecologie tropicale et méditerranéenne, Université de Perpignan, Avenue de Villeneuve, F-66025, Perpignan, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Euzet Louis Laboratoire de Parasitologie Comparée, U.R.A. C.N.R.S. 698, case 105, Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, place Eugène Bataillon, F-34095, Montpellier, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Oecologia Springer-Verlag 90/2(1992-05-01), 197-204 0029-8549 90:2<197 1992 90 442 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer