Environmental variation mediates the prevalence and co-occurrence of parasites in the common lizard, Zootoca vivipara
Abstract Background Hosts and their parasites are under reciprocal selection, leading to coevolution. However, parasites depend not only on a host, but also on the host’s environment. In addition, a single host species is rarely infested by a single species of parasite and often supports multiple sp...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-10-01
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| Series: | BMC Ecology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12898-019-0259-3 |