Lopes, Vitor LeandroCosta, Fernando VieiraRodrigues, Raquel AndradeBraga, Érika MartinsPichorim, MauroMoreira, Patricia de Abreu2021-09-182021-09-182020LOPES, V. L. et al. High fidelity defines the temporal consistency of host parasite interactions in a tropical coastal ecosystem. Scientific Reports, v. 10, n. 16839, out. 2020. Disponível em: <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-73563-6>. Acesso em: 12 maio 2021.2045-2322http://www.repositorio.ufop.br/jspui/handle/123456789/13764Host-parasite interactions represent a selective force that may reduce hosts’ lifespan, their reproductive success and survival. Environmental conditions can affect host-parasite communities, leading to distinct patterns of interactions with divergent ecological and evolutionary consequences for their persistence. Here, we tested whether climatic oscillation shapes the temporal dynamics of bird-haemosporidian associations, assessing the main mechanisms involved in the temporal dissimilarity of their interactions’ networks. For two years, we monthly sampled birds in a tropical coastal ecosystem to avian malaria molecular diagnosis. The studied networks exhibited high specialization, medium modularity, with low niche overlap among parasites lineages. Moreover, alpha and β-diversity of hosts, parasites and their interactions, as well as the structure of their networks were temporally consistent, i.e., stable under fluctuations in temperature or precipitation over seasons. The structure and temporal consistency of the studied antagonistic networks suggest a high fidelity between partners, which is likely relevant for their evolutionary persistence.en-USabertoArtigo publicado em periodicoThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. Fonte: o PDF do artigo.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73563-6