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Ectoparasites and fitness of female Columbian ground squirrels

Parasites play an important role in the evolution of host traits via natural selection, coevolution and sexually selected ornaments used in mate choice. These evolutionary scenarios assume fitness costs for hosts. To test this assumption, we conducted an ectoparasite removal experiment in free-livin...

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Published in:Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Main Authors: Raveh, Shirley, Neuhaus, Peter, Dobson, F. Stephen
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4410379/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25870399
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0113
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