Table 4.
Occurrence data of microsporidian species in native and invaded amphipod populations
| Microsporidian species | Native populations (Boye catchment) | Invaded populations (Rivers Emscher, Lippe, Ruhr) | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Site number | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| Dictyocoela duebenum / D. muelleri- complex | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||
| Dictyocoela berillonum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | x | x | |||||||
| Cucumispora dikerogammari | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | x | x | |||||||
| Microsporidium sp. G | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | x | x | x | ||||||
| Microsporidium sp. 505 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||
| Microsporidium sp. 515 | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||
| Microsporidium sp. BPAR3 | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||
| Microsporidium sp. nov. RR1 | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||
| Microsporidium sp. nov. RR2 | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||
| Microsporidium sp. I | x | x | x | x | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
Numbers 1–17 refer to the localities sampled. See Additional file 1 for explanation. Dashes indicate microsporidians that were either not found in native or invaded populations