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Crustaceans as hosts of parasites throughout the Phanerozoic

View ORCID ProfileAdiёl A. Klompmaker, Cristina M. Robins, Roger W. Portell, Antonio De Angeli
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/505495
Adiёl A. Klompmaker
1Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, 1005 Valley Life Sciences Building #3140, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA e-mail:
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Cristina M. Robins
2Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, 1101 Valley Life Science Building, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA e-mail:
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Roger W. Portell
3Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, 1659 Museum Road, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA e-mail:
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Antonio De Angeli
4Museo Civico “G. Zannato”, Piazza Marconi 15, 36075 Montecchio Maggiore (VI), Italy e-mail:
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Abstract

The fossil record of crustaceans as hosts of parasites has yielded three confirmed associations: epicaridean isopod-induced swellings on Jurassic–Recent decapod crustaceans, feminization of Cretaceous and Miocene male crabs possibly caused by rhizocephalan barnacles, and presumed pentastomids on/in Silurian ostracods. Cestode platyhelminth hooks and swellings by entoniscid isopods may be recognized in the future. Relative to 2014, we report an increase of 41% to 124 fossil decapod species with epicaridean-induced swellings in the branchial chamber (ichnotaxon Kanthyloma crusta). Furthermore, using a Late Jurassic (Tithonian) decapod assemblage from Austria, we find (1) no correlation between genus abundance and prevalence of K. crusta, (2) host preference for some galatheoid taxa (as for a mid-Cretaceous assemblage from Spain), and (3) a larger median size of parasitized versus non-parasitized specimens for two selected species. The latter result may be caused by infestation throughout ontogeny rather than exclusively in juveniles and/or possible selection for the larger sex.

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Crustaceans as hosts of parasites throughout the Phanerozoic
Adiёl A. Klompmaker, Cristina M. Robins, Roger W. Portell, Antonio De Angeli
bioRxiv 505495; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/505495
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Crustaceans as hosts of parasites throughout the Phanerozoic
Adiёl A. Klompmaker, Cristina M. Robins, Roger W. Portell, Antonio De Angeli
bioRxiv 505495; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/505495

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