Macroparasite fauna of alien grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis): composition, variability and implications for native species.

Introduced hosts populations may benefit of an "enemy release" through impoverishment of parasite communities made of both few imported species and few acquired local ones. Moreover, closely related competing native hosts can be affected by acquiring introduced taxa (spillover) and by incr...

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Main Authors: Claudia Romeo, Lucas A Wauters, Nicola Ferrari, Paolo Lanfranchi, Adriano Martinoli, Benoît Pisanu, Damiano G Preatoni, Nicola Saino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3914897?pdf=render