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Parasites and food: ripe for exploitation.
Parasites are often exploited for emotive or political purposes. This is especially so for a number of foodborne parasitic zoonoses, where this exploitation may not necessarily best serve the public good.
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Parasitism is the most common animal lifestyle, yet food webs rarely include parasites. The few earlier studies have indicated that including parasites leads to obvious increases in species richness, number of links, and food chain length. A less obvious result was that adding parasites slightly reduced connectance, a key metric considered to affect food web stability. However, reported reducti...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Trends in Parasitology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1471-4922
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2013.09.006