Symbiosis in Late Devonian-Mississippian corals: a review

Vinn, Olev

doi:10.1007/s12549-017-0284-1

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“…We interpret that 1424 of the 2118 observations unambiguously represent parasitism (categories 1-3 as defined above) as they coincide with morphological evidence for a clear negative impact on their host during life and a benefit for the parasitic organism based on their position, orientation and mode of life. Host phyla include Arthropoda (17.8% [72,77,78,[81][82][83][84][85]), Brachiopoda (4.8% [38,39,41,[86][87][88][89][90][91][92][93]), Bryozoa (2.0% [94][95][96][97]), Chordata (1.9% [98][99][100][101]), Cnidaria (2.7% [102][103][104][105][106][107][108]), Echinodermata (21.2% [75,[109][110][111][112][113][114][115][116][117]), Hemichordata (1.9% [118]), Mollusca (47.3% [76,…”

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Phanerozoic parasitism and marine metazoan diversity: dilution versus amplification

Baets

Huntley

Scarponi

et al. 2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Growing evidence suggests that biodiversity mediates parasite prevalence. We have compiled the first global database on occurrences and prevalence of marine parasitism throughout the Phanerozoic and assess the relationship with biodiversity to test if there is support for amplification or dilution of parasitism at the macroevolutionary scale. Median prevalence values by era are 5% for the Paleozoic, 4% for the Mesozoic, and a significant increase to 10% for the Cenozoic. We calculated period-level shareholder quorum sub-sampled (SQS) estimates of mean sampled diversity, three-timer (3T) origination rates, and 3T extinction rates for the most abundant host clades in the Paleobiology Database to compare to both occurrences of parasitism and the more informative parasite prevalence values. Generalized linear models (GLMs) of parasite occurrences and SQS diversity measures support both the amplification (all taxa pooled, crinoids and blastoids, and molluscs) and dilution hypotheses (arthropods, cnidarians, and bivalves). GLMs of prevalence and SQS diversity measures support the amplification hypothesis (all taxa pooled and molluscs). Though likely scale-dependent, parasitism has increased through the Phanerozoic and clear patterns primarily support the amplification of parasitism with biodiversity in the history of life. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Infectious disease macroecology: parasite diversity and dynamics across the globe’.

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Phanerozoic parasitism and marine metazoan diversity: dilution versus amplification

Baets

Huntley

Scarponi

et al. 2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…This has started to change during the last few years, especially in the light of new research approaches that promote the integration between trace and body fossil analyses to identify and qualify ancient symbiotic associations, often based on the detection of skeletal intergrowths and bioclaustration structures (e.g. Yuan et al 2005;Tapanila 2008;Tapanila and Ekdale 2007;Stanley and Schootbrugge 2009;De Baets et al 2015;Wilson 2015, 2016;Vinn et al , 2018Vinn et al , 2019Vinn et al , 2021Vinn 2016Vinn , 2017aRobin et al 2016, Robin 2021Zonneveld et al 2022). Only a few studies, however, have explored the deep past of sea turtle epibiosis based on palaeontological lines of evidence (e.g.…”

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Turtle barnacles have been turtle riders for more than 30 million years

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Rasser

Frey³

et al. 2022

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In contrast to other kinds of biological interactions, symbiosis is a scarcely investigated aspect of the fossil record. This is largely due to taphonomic biases that often frustrate any attempt to make a strong case that two organisms shared an intimate association in life. Among extant marine vertebrates, the sea turtles (Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae) bear a broad and diverse spectrum of epibiotic symbionts, including specialists such as the turtle barnacles (Chelonibiidae and Platyleapadidae). Here, we reappraise an early Oligocene (Rupelian) fossil cheloniid skeleton, featuring the remains of cirripedes on the exterior of its entoplastron, from the Rauenberg fossil-lagerstätte, southwestern Germany. The barnacle specimens are assigned to Protochelonibia melleni, an extinct protochelonibiine species and the geologically oldest known member of Chelonibiidae. In the light of taphonomic and palaeoenvironmental considerations, and given that the extant chelonibiids are mostly known as epizoic symbionts of sea turtles, we conclude that this unique fossil association resulted from the epizoic growth of the barnacles on the external surface of the plastron of the turtle during its lifetime. This remarkable fossil association provides evidence that chelonibiids, including the extinct protochelonibiines, have been chelonophilic epizoans for more than 30 Myr. A survey of the trace and body fossil records shows that platylepadids are also likely as old as the Rupelian as is their symbiotic association with cheloniid hosts. This early emergence of the modern-looking, turtle-dwelling barnacle lineages corresponds to a climate-driven phase of major radiation and taxonomic turnover among sea turtles at the Eocene–Oligocene transition.

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