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Sociality, exotic ectoparasites, and fitness in the plural breeding rodent Octodon degus

Social animals are susceptible to high infection levels by contact-transmitted parasites due to increased conspecific interaction. Exotic parasites are known to have adverse consequences on native hosts. We examined the relationship between social group size and exotic ectoparasite loads, and adult...

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Autores principales: Burger, Joseph R., Chesh, Adrian S., Muñoz, Pamela, Fredes, Fernando, Ebensperger, Luis A., Hayes, Loren D.
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Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3277428/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22328801
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-011-1252-9
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