Data for: A mosquito parasite is locally adapted to its host but not temperature

Climate change will alter interactions between parasites and their hosts. Warming may affect patterns of local adaptation, shifting the environment to favor the parasite or host and thus changing the prevalence of disease. We assessed local adaptation to hosts and temperature in the facultative ciliate parasite Lambornella clarki, which infects the western tree hole mosquito Aedes sierrensis. We conducted laboratory infection experiments with mosquito larvae and parasites collected from across a climate gradient, pairing sympatric or allopatric populations across three temperatures that were either matched or mismatched to the source environment. L. clarki parasites were locally adapted to their hosts, with 2.6x higher infection rates on sympatric compared to allopatric populations, but were not locally adapted to temperature. Infection peaked at the intermediate temperature of 12.5°C, notably lower than the optimum temperature for free-living L. clarki growth, suggesting that the host’..., , , # Data for \"A mosquito parasite is locally adapted to its host but not temperature\"

Paper associated with this data archive: \"A mosquito parasite is locally adapted to its host but not temperature\"

Authors:
Kelsey Lyberger corresponding author [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])
Johannah Farner [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])
Lisa Couper [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])
Erin A Mordecai [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])

Citation: Lyberger, K, F Farner, L Couper, and E A Mordecai. 2024. A mosquito parasite is locally adapted to its host but not temperature. American Naturalist, Dryad Digital Repository, [https://doi.org/10.25338/B80W73](https://doi.org/10.25338/B80W73).

Funding Sources: This work was supported by the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology Program under Grant No. 2208947. EAM was supported by the National Institutes of Health (R35GM133439, R01AI168097, R01AI102918), the National Sc...