Goedknegt, Anouk; Shoesmith, D. (David); Jung, Alexa Sarina; Luttikhuizen, Pieternella; Philippart, C. J. M. (Katja) et. al. (2017): Trophic relationship between the invasive parasitic copepod Mytilicola orientalis and its native blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) host. Version 1. 4TU.ResearchData. dataset. https://doi.org/10.4121/uuid:a80da1ef-1890-48f4-bcf9-38dc80915153

Dataset

• Ecology
• Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience

Magallana gigas, mixing model, pacific oyster, parasite co-introduction, Parasite invasion, parasite spillover, parasite–host interaction, stable isotope analysis (SIA), trophic fractionation factor

2013-07/2013-10

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by Anouk Goedknegt , D. (David) Shoesmith , Alexa Sarina Jung , Pieternella Luttikhuizen , C. J. M. (Katja) Philippart , H.W. (Henk) van der Veer , D.W. (David) Thieltges

Research objective: Invasive parasites can spill over to new hosts in invaded ecosystems with often unpredictable trophic relationships in the newly arising parasite-host interactions. In European seas, the intestinal copepod Mytilicola orientalis was co-introduced with Pacific oysters (Magallana gigas) and spilled over to native blue mussels (Mytilus edulis), with negative impacts on the condition of infected mussels. However, whether the parasite feeds on host tissue and/or stomach contents is yet unknown. To answer this question, we performed a stable isotope analysis in which we included mussel host tissue and the primary food sources of the mussels, microphytobenthos (MPB) and particulate organic matter (POM). Type of research, method & collection of data: Stable isotope analysis of four different types of samples 1) parasite Mytilicola orientalis, 2) host Mytilus edulis, 3) particulate organic matter (POM) and 4) microphytobenthos (MPB).

• 2017-11-15 first online, published, posted

NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

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• https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182017001779

NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Coastal Systems, and Utrecht University