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. 2016 Nov 17;9:588. doi: 10.1186/s13071-016-1867-9

Table 2.

Metazoan parasite communities in Barbus spp. populations. Mean abundance (A) ± standard deviation (SD) and prevalence (P, in %) of metazoan parasites in B. barbus (BB), B. meridionalis (BM) and their hybrids (H) 

Loire allopatric BB Rhône late sympatric BB Argens recent sympatric BB Argens recent sympatric H Argens recent sympatric BM Argens allopatric BM
(n = 21) (n = 145) (n = 25) (n = 81) (n = 42) (n = 39)
A ± SD P A ± SD P A ± SD P A ± SD P A ± SD P A ± SD P
Myxozoa
Myxobolus spp. 38 66 60 28 21 21
Trematoda
Allocreadium isoporum 0.14 ± 0.36 14 2.27 ± 8.25 20 2.57 ± 7.80 31 7.13 ± 22.19 49
Apharyngostrigea sp. 0.26 ± 3.07 1 0.28 ± 0.89 12 0.16 ± 1.44 1 1.40 ± 9.10 2
Clinostomum complanatum 0.39 ± 2.77 12
Diplostomum spp. 0.14 ± 0.65 5 1.87 ± 6.29 38 0.80 ± 1.53 28 0.12 ± 0.53 7
 Echinostomatidae gen. sp. 0.24 ±1.09 5
 Digenea fam. gen. spp. 0.05 ± 0.22 5 0.19 ± 2.16 1
Holostephanus sp. 1.68 ± 4.13 24 0.35 ± 1.69 5
Tylodelphys sp. 0.10 ± 0.53 5 0.02 ± 0.22 1
Monogenea
Dactylogyrus sp. 0.03 ± 0.16 3
Dactylogyrus extensus 0.07 ± 0.38 5 0.05 ± 0.22 5
Dactylogyrus carpathicus 3.19 ± 14.39 10 57.67 ± 76.65 79
Dactylogyrus malleus 81.95 ± 88.38 100 70.14 ± 160.06 90 0.60 ± 2.40 16 0.16 ± 0.70 7
Gyrodactylus hemibarbi 0.34 ± 0.97 17 0.12 ± 0.43 8 0.63 ± 1.50 20 4.40 ± 6.49 74 2.49 ± 4.23 56
 Gyrodactylus katharineri 0.06 ± 0.27 6 0.92 ± 1.63 40 0.67 ± 1.10 35 0.52 ± 1.37 24
Gyrodactylus markewitschi 3.48 ±10.53 33 20.59 ± 87.32 34 1.12 ± 5.40 8 17.96 ± 80.32 25 6.10 ± 18.82 43 2.82 ± 7.81 41
Gyrodactylus sprostonae 5.91 ± 50.59 2 81.79 ± 261.36 26 4.00 ± 12.18 26
Paradiplozoon homoion 0.23 ± 1.02 12 0.04 ± 0.02 4 0.04 ± 0.19 4 0.38 ±0.81 23
Cestoda
Bathybothrium rectangulum 0.90 ± 3.06 19 1.08 ± 3.64 16 6.6 ± 15.52 32 2.02 ± 9.15 19 1.17 ± 2.25 21 0.74 ± 1.27 36
Schyzocotyle acheilognathi 0.06 ± 0.37 3
Caryophyllaeus brachycollis 0.01 ± 0.12 1 7.48 ± 22.63 28 0.75 ± 3.43 12 0.05 ± 0.31 2 1.85 ± 6.11 28
Proteocephalus torulosus 0.15 ± 0.59 8
Nematoda
Contracaecum sp. 0.30 ± 2.15 8
Pseudocapillaria tomentosa 1.00 ± 4.15 10 0.47 ± 2.02 10 0.08 ± 0.28 8 0.75 ± 2.37 21 0.64 ± 2.09 14 0.31 ± 0.61 23
Rhabdochona hellichi 53.90 ± 67.03 100 14.99 ± 22.15 72 2.56 ± 4.55 48 2.63 ± 9.00 30 2.14 ± 6.33 19 2.23 ±5.72 41
 Nematoda fam. gen. sp. 1 0.02 ± 0.15 2 0.28 ± 1.32 8
 Nematoda fam. gen. sp. 2 1.01 ± 12.04 1
 Nematoda fam. gen. sp. 3 313.05 ± 901.63 33
Acanthocephala
Acanthocephalus anguillae 0.05 ± 0.22 5 0.25 ±2.04 4
 Acanthocephala fam. gen spp. 0.03 ± 0.26 1 0.15 ± 1.33 1
Pomphorhynchus tereticollis 1.67 ± 4.86 19 7.97 ± 23.56 39 40.36 ± 73.65 44 25.59 ± 39.91 80 20.50 ± 19.95 83 20.62 ± 17.64 95
Mollusca
Anodonta spp. 0.52 ± 0.68 43 0.15 ± 0.69 6 0.44 ± 0.96 24 0.10 ± 0.46 5
Crustacea
Argulus coregoni 0.01 ± 0.08 1
Ergasilus sieboldi 0.43 ±1.96 5 1.32 ± 5.06 21 0.02 ± 0.15 2
Tracheliastes polycolpus 0.17 ± 0.68 10
Chelicerata
Hydrozetes sp. 0.01 ± 0.11 1