Comparative transcriptome analysis of Chinese grass shrimp (Palaemonetes sinensis) hepatopancreas under ectoparasitic isopod (Tachaea chinensis) infection

Parasitism does not reduce thermal limits in the intermediate host of a bopyrid isopod

“…The lack of a strong negative effect of parasitism on CT max in Acartia tonsa was contrary to our hypothesis that infection would reduce thermal limits. It is possible that infestation stimulated the production of heat shock proteins (Encomio and Chu, 2007;Frank et al, 2013;Yang et al, 2022;Yu et al, 2021), a key component of the copepod heat stress response (Rahlff et al, 2017;Schoville et al, 2012). We wonder, however, if perhaps our initial hypothesis should have instead been that parasitism does not reduce the thermal limits of an intermediate host species.…”