What doesn’t kill you doesn’t make you stronger: Parasites modify interference competition between two invasive amphipods

• Published in: NeoBiota Vol. 69; pp. 51 - 74
• Main Authors: Kobak, Jarosław, Rachalewski, Michał, Bącela-Spychalska, Karolina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 13.10.2021
• Subjects: aggression; conspecificity; Dikerogammarus villosus; freshwater; invasive species; males; Microsporidia; parasites

We used a freshwater amphipod-microsporidian model (Ponto-Caspian hosts: Dikerogammarus villosus and D. haemobaphes , parasite: Cucumispora dikerogammari ) to check whether parasites affect biological invasions by modulating behaviour and intra- and interspecific interactions between the invaders. W...