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Antiparasite behavior
What do you think are the biggest challenges to the scientific community in the short/medium/ long term? I think we need to get out more. Science has become ghettoised. The pressures of the grant-publication-grant cycle are keeping people in their labs, talking to a very narrow range of people. Science is increasingly a disconnected and segregated activity. This situation has a lot of very nega...
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Selective defecation and selective foraging are two potential antiparasite behaviors used by grazing ungulates to reduce infection by fecal–oral transmitted parasites. While there is some evidence that domestic species use these strategies, less is known about the occurrence and efficacy of these behaviors in wild ungulates. In this study, I examined whether wild antelope use selective defecati...
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1. Individuals that live in groups benefit from increased foraging success and decreased predation. Protection from some types of parasites may provide an additional benefit of group-living. For fish, the extent to which shoaling can reduce an individual's risk of exposure to the infective stages of parasites is unknown. 2. We tested for antiparasite benefits of shoaling in fathead minnows expo...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.02.024