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Parasite insight: assessing fitness costs, infection risks and foraging benefits relating to gastrointestinal nematodes in wild mammalian herbivores

Mammalian herbivores are typically infected by parasitic nematodes, which are acquired through direct, faecal–oral transmission. These parasites can cause significant production losses in domestic livestock, but much less is known about impacts on wild mammalian hosts. We review three elements of pa...

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Published in:Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Main Authors: Coulson, Graeme, Cripps, Jemma K., Garnick, Sarah, Bristow, Verity, Beveridge, Ian
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6000135/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29866912
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0197
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