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First Data on the Helminth Community of the Smallest Living Mammal on Earth, the Etruscan Pygmy Shrew, Suncus etruscus (Savi, 1822) (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae)

Animals, 2021
Suncus etruscus is the smallest living mammal on Earth by mass. Most adults weigh 1.8–3 g with a body length of 35–48 mm. Catching it in small mammal traps in nature is extremely difficult due to its minute size, and therefore special trapping methods ...
María Teresa Galán-Puchades, Santiago Mas-Coma, María Adela Valero, Màrius V. Fuentes   +3 more
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Role of Multiple Infections on Immunological Variation in Wild Populations

mSystems, 2019
A central challenge in the fields of evolutionary immunology and disease ecology is to understand the causes and consequences of natural variation in host susceptibility to infectious diseases.
Ann T. Tate
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Helminth Community of the Black Margate Anisotremus surinamensis (Teleostei: Haemulidae), from Coral Reefs off the Veracruz Coast, Mexico, Southern Gulf of Mexico

Diversity, 2022
We describe the composition and structure of the helminth community of the black margate Anisotremus surinamensis in coral reefs from the Parque Nacional Sistema Arrecifal Veracruzano (PNSAV) off the Veracruz coast.
Jesús Montoya-Mendoza, Guillermo Salgado-Maldonado, Carlos Roberto Blanco-Segovia, Edgar F. Mendoza-Franco, Fabiola Lango-Reynoso   +4 more
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Host space, not energy or symbiont size, constrains feather mite abundance across passerine bird species

Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 93, Issue 4, Page 393-405, April 2024.
Why some host species hold larger symbiont abundances than others is an open question in ecology. Comparison of the empirical scaling of feather mite abundance with predictions from the metabolic theory of ecology showed that space (number of feather barbs of bird species), and not energy, was the main constraint to feather mite infracommunities ...
María del Mar Labrador, David Serrano, Jorge Doña, Eduardo Aguilera, José L. Arroyo, Francisco Atiénzar, Emilio Barba, Ana Bermejo, Guillermo Blanco, Antoni Borràs, Juan A. Calleja, José L. Cantó, Verónica Cortés, Javier De la Puente, Diana De Palacio, Sofía Fernández‐González, Jordi Figuerola, Óscar Frías, Benito Fuertes‐Marcos, László Z. Garamszegi, Óscar Gordo, Míriam Gurpegui, István Kovács, José L. Martínez, Leandro Meléndez, Alexandre Mestre, Anders P. Møller, Juan S. Monrós, Rubén Moreno‐Opo, Carlos Navarro, Péter L. Pap, Javier Pérez‐Tris, Rubén Piculo, Carlos Ponce, Heather C. Proctor, Rubén Rodríguez, Ángel Sallent, Juan Carlos Senar, José L. Tella, Csongor I. Vágási, Matthias Vögeli, Roger Jovani   +41 more
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Helminth parasite communities of spotted rose snapper Lutjanus guttatus from the Mexican Pacific

Helminthologia, 2017
The helminth communities of L. guttatus from Mazatlan Bay (MB) and Banderas Bay (BB), on the Pacific coast of Mexico, were studied during two consecutive years.
Morales-Serna F. N., García-Vargas F., Medina-Guerrero R. M., Fajer-Ávila E. J.   +3 more
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Helminth parasites of Xiphophorus birchmanni (Pisces: Poeciliidae) from two localities of the Pánuco River drainage, Mexico

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2019
Specimens of Xiphophorus birchmanni (Teleostei: Poeciliidae) (55 individuals) (Sheepshead swordtail) were collected from 2 localities in the Pánuco River drainage from Hidalgo and Veracruz [at Atlatipa (n = 26) and Benito Juárez (n = 29), respectively],
Christian Elizbeth Bautista-Hernández, Griselda Pulido-Flores, Juan Violante-González, Scott Monks   +3 more
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Temporal changes and between-host variation in the intestinal parasite community of Arctic charr in a subarctic lake [PDF]

, 2016
The occurrence of trophically transmitted intestinal parasites in Arctic charr was analyzed from data material collected over two decades from Lake Takvatn, northern Norway.
Kristoffersen, Roar, Amundsen, Per-Arne, Primicerio, Raul, Knudsen, Rune, Kuhn, Jesper A.   +4 more
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The metazoan parasite communities of the shoal flounder (Syacium gunteri) as bioindicators of chemical contamination in the southern Gulf of Mexico

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background Because agriculture and offshore oil extraction are significant economic activities in the southern Gulf of Mexico, high concentrations of nutrients and hydrocarbons are expected. As parasite communities are sensitive to environmental impacts,
Víctor Manuel Vidal-Martínez, Oscar A Centeno-Chalé, Edgar Torres-Irineo, Juan Sánchez-Ávila, Gerardo Gold-Bouchot, M Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo   +5 more
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Coexistence of helminth species in Lysapsus limellus (Anura: Pseudidae) from an Argentinean subtropical area: Influence of biotic and abiotic factors

, 2000
Two types of pond were considered, one permanent and one semipermanent. The main goals of this study were: 1) to investigate the relationships between pond type, season, study time, frog body size and frog sex and the presence-absence and counts of ...
Manly, Bryan F. J., Hamann, Mónika Inés, Kehr, Arturo Ignacio   +2 more
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CONDITION FACTOR AND ECOLOGY OF ENDOHELMINTHS IN Metynnis lippincottianus FROM THE CURIAí­Å¡ RIVER, IN EASTERN AMAZON (BRAZIL)

Boletim do Instituto de Pesca, 2020
Fish are among the vertebrate groups most susceptible to parasitic infections due to environmental characteristics that can favor the development of parasites; also, position of the host in food web has been associated with the parasitism.
Abthyllane CARVALHO, Roger Leomar FERREIRA, Priscila ARAÚJO, Marcos TAVARES-DIAS, Edilson MATOS, Marcela Nunes VIDEIRA   +5 more
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