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| contents | Phylogeny, ecological fitting and lung flukes: helping solve the problem of emerging infectious diseases Daniel R. Brooks Deborah A. McLennan Virginia León Régagnon Eric Hoberg Biología bullfrogs leopard frogs pathogen pollution introduced species ecological fi tting Traditional wisdom, based on assumptions of species-specifi c coevolutionary interactions between hosts andparasites, suggests that pathogens with multi-host life cycles are unlikely to move with their defi nitive hosts because theirtransmission requirements are so specialized. Ecological fitting provides a theory of diffuse coevolution, which allowsintroduced pathogens with complex life cycles to become established and spread rapidly into native hosts if the resourcerequired at each stage of the life cycle is both phylogenetically conservative (distributed among numerous species) andgeographically widespread. The external appearance of life cycle complexity does not, therefore, on its own, predict thepotential for an organism to become an emerging infectious disease. We apply this concept to explain a potential enigma,the presence of a lung fl uke, Haematoloechus fl oedae, endemic to North American bullfrogs, in Costa Rican leopardfrogs, even though there are no bullfrogs extant in the country today, and none ever occurred where the parasite hasbeen discovered. We then discuss how the integration of ecological and life history information within a phylogeneticframework can help biologists move from attempts to manage emerging infectious disease outbreaks to the ability topredict and thus circumvent the outbreak in the first place 2006 artículo científico 1870-3453 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=42577209 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=425 Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad application/pdf Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad (México) Num.2 Vol.77 |
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| language | en |
| publishDate | 2006 |
| publisher | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| spellingShingle | Phylogeny, ecological fitting and lung flukes: helping solve the problem of emerging infectious diseases Daniel R. Brooks Biología bullfrogs leopard frogs pathogen pollution introduced species ecological fi tting Phylogeny, ecological fitting and lung flukes: helping solve the problem of emerging infectious diseases Daniel R. Brooks Deborah A. McLennan Virginia León Régagnon Eric Hoberg Biología bullfrogs leopard frogs pathogen pollution introduced species ecological fi tting Traditional wisdom, based on assumptions of species-specifi c coevolutionary interactions between hosts andparasites, suggests that pathogens with multi-host life cycles are unlikely to move with their defi nitive hosts because theirtransmission requirements are so specialized. Ecological fitting provides a theory of diffuse coevolution, which allowsintroduced pathogens with complex life cycles to become established and spread rapidly into native hosts if the resourcerequired at each stage of the life cycle is both phylogenetically conservative (distributed among numerous species) andgeographically widespread. The external appearance of life cycle complexity does not, therefore, on its own, predict thepotential for an organism to become an emerging infectious disease. We apply this concept to explain a potential enigma,the presence of a lung fl uke, Haematoloechus fl oedae, endemic to North American bullfrogs, in Costa Rican leopardfrogs, even though there are no bullfrogs extant in the country today, and none ever occurred where the parasite hasbeen discovered. We then discuss how the integration of ecological and life history information within a phylogeneticframework can help biologists move from attempts to manage emerging infectious disease outbreaks to the ability topredict and thus circumvent the outbreak in the first place 2006 artículo científico 1870-3453 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=42577209 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=425 Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad application/pdf Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad (México) Num.2 Vol.77 |
| title | Phylogeny, ecological fitting and lung flukes: helping solve the problem of emerging infectious diseases |
| topic | Biología bullfrogs leopard frogs pathogen pollution introduced species ecological fi tting |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=42577209 |