Parasite effects on host's trophic and isotopic niches

A Born-Torrijos, P Riekenberg, MTJ van der Meer… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
Wild animals are usually infected with parasites that can alter their hosts' trophic niches in
food webs as can be seen from stable isotope analyses of infected versus uninfected …

Expanding network ecology in freshwater ecosystems

FM Windsor - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Research in freshwater ecosystems has always had a strong focus on ecological
interactions. The vast majority of studies, however, have investigated trophic interactions …

Trophic position, elemental ratios and nitrogen transfer in a planktonic host–parasite–consumer food chain including a fungal parasite

V Sánchez Barranco, MTJ Van der Meer, M Kagami… - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
Parasitism is arguably the most commonly occurring consumer strategy. However, only a
few food web studies assess how well stable isotopes reflect the trophic position of parasitic …

A new technique to study nutrient flow in host-parasite systems by carbon stable isotope analysis of amino acids and glucose

T Hesse, M Nachev, S Khaliq, MA Jochmann… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Stable isotope analysis of individual compounds is emerging as a powerful tool to study
nutrient origin and conversion in host-parasite systems. We measured the carbon isotope …

Eye fluke infection changes diet composition in juvenile European perch (Perca fluviatilis)

JC Vivas Muñoz, CK Feld, S Hilt, A Manfrin… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Intraspecific diet specialization, usually driven by resource availability, competition and
predation, is common in natural populations. However, the role of parasites on diet …

Just Hitching a Ride: Stable Isotopes Reveal Non‐Feeding Behaviour of Anisakis simplex Within Its Host Fish

A Sabadel, M Gay, HS Lane, O Bourgau… - Journal of fish …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Anisakis simplex larvae, commonly found in marine fish, cause anisakiasis in humans,
resulting in gastric to gastro‐allergic symptoms. Despite known health risks, the impact of …

[HTML][HTML] Stable isotope analysis spills the beans about spatial variance in trophic structure in a fish host–parasite system from the Vaal River System, South Africa

BM Gilbert, M Nachev, MA Jochmann… - International Journal for …, 2020 - Elsevier
Stable isotope analysis offers a unique tool for comparing trophic interactions and food web
architecture in ecosystems based on analysis of stable isotope ratios of carbon (13 C/12 C) …

Stable isotopes unravel the feeding mode–trophic position relationship in trematode parasites

AJM Sabadel, CD MacLeod - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotopes have been sporadically used over the last two decades to characterise host–
parasite trophic relationships. The main reason for this scarcity is the lack of an obvious …