parasitological, social and environmental factors in a free-ranging primate
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Julie Duboscq1,3,4, Valéria Romano3,4, Cédric Sueur3,4 and Andrew J. J. MacIntosh1,2 1Kyoto University Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto, Japan 2Kyoto University Primate Research Institute, Inuyama, Japan 3Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Strasbourg, France 4Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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