Variations in prevalence and intensity of blow fly infestations in an insular Mediterranean population of blue tits

نویسندگان

  • Sylvie Hurtrez-Boussès
  • Michel de Garine-Wichatitsky
  • Philippe Perret
  • Jacques Blondel
  • François Renaud
چکیده

A Corsican population of blue tits (Parus caeruleus) suffers extremely high levels of infestation by two species of blow flies (genus Protocalliphora) that have been suspected to influence the life-history traits of their hosts. By quantifying the abundance of the blow fly larvae infesting each brood of this population during 2 consecutive years, we showed that the distribution of these parasites did not differ from a Poisson distribution. The intensity of blow fly parasitism (mean parasite load per infested nest) was independent of the time of breeding and the available space in the nest of their bird hosts. Moreover, the total blow fly load per nest increased significantly with the number of chicks, whereas the parasite load per chick was not linearly related to brood size. Résumé : Chez une population corse de Mésanges bleues (Parus caeruleus), les charges parasitaires des larves de deux espèces de Protocalliphora, se sont avérées exceptionnellement élevées et pourraient influencer les caracteristiques démographiques de l’hôte. Dans cette étude, nous avons quantifié l’abondance des larves de Protocalliphora dans chaque nichée de cette population durant 2 années consécutives et avons démontré que la distribution de parasites n’était pas significativement différente d’une distribution de Poisson. De plus, (l’intensité moyen de parasites par nid infesté) était indépendante de l’époque de reproduction et de l’espace disponible dans le nid hôte. Enfin, nombre totale de parasites par nid augmentait significativement en fonction du nombre d’oisillons dans la nichée, alors que la charge parasitaire par oisillon ne variait pas de façon linéaire en fonction du nombre d’oisillons dans la nichée. HurtrezBoussès et al. 34

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تاریخ انتشار 1999