Geography, phylogeny and host switch drive the coevolution of parasitic Gyrodactylus flatworms and their hosts

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第一作者： Lei, Hong-Peng

作者： Lei, Hong-Peng;Jakovlic, Ivan;Liu, Xiang;Yan, Chuan;Zhang, Dong;Lei, Hong-Peng;Jakovlic, Ivan;Liu, Xiang;Yan, Chuan;Zhang, Dong;Zhou, Shun;Jin, Xiao;Wang, Bo;Li, Wen-Xiang;Wang, Gui-Tang;Li, Wen-Xiang;Wang, Gui-Tang

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关键词： Host-parasite interactions; Host specificity; Host use; Co-phylogeny; Coevolutionary events; Bipartite network

期刊名称：PARASITES & VECTORS （ 影响因子：3.2； 五年影响因子：3.6 ）

ISSN： 1756-3305

年卷期： 2024 年 17 卷 1 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Background Gyrodactylus is a lineage of monogenean flatworm ectoparasites exhibiting many features that make them a suitable model to study the host-parasite coevolutionary dynamics. Previous coevolutionary studies of this lineage mainly relied on low-power datasets (a small number of samples and a single molecular marker) and (now) outdated algorithms. Methods To investigate the coevolutionary relationship of gyrodactylids and their fish hosts in high resolution, we used complete mitogenomes (including two newly sequenced Gyrodactylus species), a large number of species in the single-gene dataset, and four different coevolutionary algorithms. Results The overall coevolutionary fit between the parasites and hosts was consistently significant. Multiple indicators confirmed that gyrodactylids are generally highly host-specific parasites, but several species could parasitize either multiple (more than 5) or phylogenetically distant fish hosts. The molecular dating results indicated that gyrodactylids tend to evolve towards high host specificity. Speciation by host switch was identified as a more important speciation mode than co-speciation. Assuming that the ancestral host belonged to Cypriniformes, we inferred four major host switch events to non-Cypriniformes hosts (mostly Salmoniformes), all of which occurred deep in the evolutionary history. Despite their relative rarity, these events had strong macroevolutionary consequences for gyrodactylid diversity. For example, in our dataset, 57.28% of all studied gyrodactylids parasitized only non-Cypriniformes hosts, which implies that the evolutionary history of more than half of all included lineages could be traced back to these major host switch events. The geographical co-occurrence of fishes and gyrodactylids determined the host use by these gyrodactylids, and geography accounted for most of the phylogenetic signal in host use. Conclusions Our findings suggest that the coevolution of Gyrodactylus flatworms and their hosts is largely driven by geography, phylogeny, and host switches.

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