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110-million-years-old fossil suggests early parasitism in shrimps.
Lima, Daniel; Alencar, Damares R; Santana, William; Oliveira, Naiara C; Saraiva, Antônio Á F; Oliveira, Gustavo R; Boyko, Christopher B; Pinheiro, Allysson P.
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  • Lima D; Museum of Paleontology Plácido Cidade Nuvens, Santana do Cariri, CE, Brazil.
  • Alencar DR; Department of Geology, Postgraduate Program in Geosciences (PPGEOC), Federal University of Pernambuco-UFPE, Avenida Prof. Moraes Rego, 1235, Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, 50670-901, Brazil.
  • Santana W; Museum of Paleontology Plácido Cidade Nuvens, Santana do Cariri, CE, Brazil.
  • Oliveira NC; Museum of Paleontology Plácido Cidade Nuvens, Santana do Cariri, CE, Brazil.
  • Saraiva AÁF; Department of Biological Sciences, Regional University of Cariri-URCA, Rua Carolino Sucupira, s/n, Crato, CE, 63100-000, Brazil.
  • Oliveira GR; Department of Biology, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco-UFRPE, Rua Dom Manuel de Medeiros, Recife, PE, 52171-900, Brazil.
  • Boyko CB; Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 11549, USA.
  • Pinheiro AP; Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, 10024, USA.
Sci Rep ; 13(1): 14549, 2023 09 04.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37666850
Direct evidence of paleo-parasitism in crustaceans is very scarce. Epicaridean isopods are obligatory parasites of crustaceans, including decapods such as crabs, shrimps, and lobsters. Their interaction with hosts is known from fossils as far back as the Jurassic through deformations of the branchial cuticle on the hosts. Their small size and low fossilization potential, outside of those larvae that have been found in amber, makes understanding the group's evolution challenging. Here, we report the oldest evidence of paleo-parasitism in marine shrimps and an imprint of a putative adult parasite that appears to be an epicaridean isopod. Our results suggest that the parasite-host interaction between epicaridean isopods and marine shrimps started at least 110 million years ago, and the Tethys Sea was a possible dispersal pathway for this lineage of parasites during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, as known for other marine organisms through most of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The oldest fossil records of bopyrid swellings associated with a large number of decapods from the Jurassic in Europe suggest that the Tethys region was a center of epicaridean distribution as a whole. Recent parasitic isopods found on dendrobranchiate shrimps are restricted to the Indo-Pacific and may represent a relict group of a lineage of parasites more widely distributed in the Mesozoic.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Decápodos / Isópodos / Gastrópodos Límite: Animals País/Región como asunto: Europa Idioma: En Revista: Sci Rep Año: 2023 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Brasil Pais de publicación: Reino Unido
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Decápodos / Isópodos / Gastrópodos Límite: Animals País/Región como asunto: Europa Idioma: En Revista: Sci Rep Año: 2023 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Brasil Pais de publicación: Reino Unido