Recolonizing gray wolves increase parasite infection risk in their prey
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Recolonizing gray wolves increase parasite infection risk in their prey
The recent recolonization of Central Europe by the European gray wolf (Canis lupus) provides an opportunity to study the dynamics of parasite transmission for cases when a definitive host returns after a phase of local extinction. We investigated whether a newly established wolf population increased the prevalence of those parasites in ungulate intermediate hosts representing wolf prey, whether...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology and Evolution
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2045-7758,2045-7758
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3839