A comparison of the physiological status in parasitized roe deer (<em>Capreolus capreolus</em>) from two different populations

Maël Jégo; Hubert Ferté; Jean-Michel Gaillard; François Klein; Laurent Crespin; Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont; Gilles Bourgoin

doi:10.1016/j.vetpar.2014.09.016

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A comparison of the physiological status in parasitized roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) from two different populations

Maël Jégo ^{1, 2, *} Hubert Ferté ³ Jean-Michel Gaillard ¹ François Klein ⁴ Laurent Crespin ^{5, 1} Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont ^{1, 2} Gilles Bourgoin ^{1, 2}

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1 LBBE - Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive - UMR 5558

2 VAS - VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement

3 VECPAR - Transmission Vectorielle et Épidémiosurveillance de Maladies Parasitaires - EA 4688

4 Centre National de Recherches Appliquées sur les Cervidés- Sanglier

5 UR EpiA - Unité de Recherche d'Épidémiologie Animale

Abstract : Studies of the impact of parasites on host performance have mainly focused on body mass, a phenotypic trait that responds relatively slowly to the presence of parasites, and the expectedly faster response of physiological parameters has been mostly overlooked. We filled the gap by measuring the impact of endoparasites on four hematological/biochemical parameters (hematocrit, albumin, creatinine and fructosamine) in two contrasting free-living populations of roe deer. We generally found negative relationships between parasites and physiological parameters. Our findings also indicate little role of host sex on parasite impact and strongest parasite effects on young and senescent hosts. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords : roe deer wildlife plasma biochemistry hematology

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Life Sciences [q-bio] / Microbiology and Parasitology

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