Digenean species diversity in teleost fish from a nature reserve off Corsica, France (Western Mediterranean), and a comparison with other Mediterranean regions

TL;DR: There has been growing recognition in recent years that parasites are a critical part of biodiversity and that their loss could substantially alter ecosystem function, and such a loss may be among the last major ecological effects of industrial fishing to be recognized by scientists.

TL;DR: B. boops is a new host for 11 metazoan parasites (six digeneans, three acanthocephalans, one copepod and one isopod) recovered in this study.

TL;DR: The data indicate that fishing can drive declines in parasite abundance at the parasite population level by reducing the availability of habitat and resources for parasites, but less commonly affects the abundance of parasites at the infrapopulation level (within individual hosts).

TL;DR: The life-cycle of Macvicaria obovata is elucidated and the first detailed morphological descriptions of the intramolluscan larval stages of the two opecoelid species as well as partial 28S rDNA sequences to aid future studies on systematic relationships within the OPEcoelidae are provided.

TL;DR: In this paper, an ad hoc committee was established to establish working definitions of a few terms used and misused by parasitological ecologists as a guide for authors submitting papers to The Journal of Parasitology.

TL;DR: An ad hoc committee to establish working definitions of a few terms used and misused by parasitological ecologists was appointed as a guide for authors submitting papers to The Journal of Parasitology.

TL;DR: Diet analyses available for the fish hosts were used to assess the degree of overlap in the use of food among the three species and showed that the distribution of parasites in Diplodus hosts is not a consequence of coevolutionary interactions.