Statistics Information for each Dependent variable

This is a table containing specific statistical output for each dependent variable

Data from: One stimulus - two responses: host and parasite life history variation in response to environmental stress

Climate change stressors will place different selective pressures on both parasites and their hosts, forcing individuals to modify their life history strategies and altering the distribution and prevalence of disease. Few studies have investigated whether parasites are able to respond to host stress and respond by varying their reproductive schedules. Additionally, multiple environmental stressors can limit the ability of a host to respond adaptively to parasite infection. This study compared both host and parasite life history parameters in unstressed and drought-stressed environments using the human parasite, Schistosoma mansoni in its freshwater snail intermediate host. Snail hosts infected with the parasite demonstrated a significant reproductive burst during the pre-patent period (fecundity compensation), but that response was absent in a drought-stressed environment. This is the first report of the elimination of host fecundity compensation to parasitism when exposed to additional environmental stress. More surprisingly, we found that infections in drought-stressed snails had significantly higher parasite reproductive outputs than infections in unstressed snails. The finding suggests that climate change may alter the infection dynamics of this human parasite

Host and parasite life history Raw Data

This data file contains snail growth, prepatent and patent reproduction, and parasite reproduction data collected from snails exposed to drought stress and/or infection as well as control unstressed and uninfected snails

Aestivation Data R code

This file contains the R code used to run our analyses