ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2018
Parasite insight: assessing fitness costs, infection risks and foraging benefits relating to gastrointestinal nematodes in wild mammalian herbivores.
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- Sublethal effects of parasitism on ruminants can have cascading consequences for ecosystems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Pooled it
- Scoop That Poop: Optimising Faecal Sample Pre-Processing for Parasite Metabarcoding.Molecular ecology resources · 2026Article
- Beyond density: Environmental and dietary drivers of endoparasite burden in overabundant red deer populations.Parasitology research · 2026Article
- A cross-sectional study reveals complex associations between gastrointestinal parasite composition and faecal immune and inflammatory biomarkers in wildlife and livestock in Kenya.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Food Subsidy Effects on Host Foraging Behavior Shape Host-Macroparasite Infection Dynamics.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Parasite-host contact in the Arctic: dispersal behaviour of infective nematode larvae from Svalbard reindeer faeces.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Nematophagous fungi as biological control agents of parasitic nematodes in soils of wildlife parks.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025Article
- Investigation of the gut parasitic community composition inFrontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- Exploring animal enclosures and parasite interactions in Germany.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2024Article
- Morphological Traits Are Not Consistently Related to Population Size in Four Migratory Caribou Populations Across North America.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Ecology and phenology of the bat tickParasitology · 2024Article
- Evaluating the Presence of Disgust in Animals.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- Age-specific impacts of vegetation functional traits on gastrointestinal nematode parasite burdens in a large herbivore.The Journal of animal ecology · 2023Article
- Understanding Animal-Plant-Parasite Interactions to Improve the Management of Gastrointestinal Nematodes in Grazing Ruminants.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Experimental evidence of parasite-induced behavioural alterations modulated by food availability in wild capuchin monkeys.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Mother-to-daughter transmission of hygienic anti-parasite behaviour in mandrills.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Helminth parasites are associated with reduced survival probability in young red deer.Parasitology · 2022Article
- Experimental removal of nematode parasites increases growth, sprint speed, and mating success in brown anole lizards.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2022Article
- A tale of two nematodes: Climate mediates mustelid infection by nematodes across the geographical range.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2022Article
- Infectious disease macroecology: parasite diversity and dynamics across the globe.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
Mammalian herbivores are typically infected by parasitic nematodes, which are acquired through direct, faecal-oral transmission. These parasites can cause significant production losses in domestic livestock, but much less is known about impacts on wild mammalian hosts. We review three elements of parasitism from the host's perspective: fitness costs of infection, risks of infection during foraging and benefits of nutritious pasture. The majority of wildlife studies have been observational, but experimental manipulation is increasing. Treatment with anthelmintics to manipulate parasite load has revealed varied impacts of parasites on fitness variables across host species, but has not produced consistent evidence for parasite-induced anorexia or impaired body condition. Some experimental studies of infection risk have manipulated faecal contamination and detected faecal avoidance by hosts. Only two field studies have explored the trade-off between infection risk and nutritional benefit generated by avoidance of contaminated patches. Overall, field studies of costs, risks and benefits of the host-parasite relationship are limited and few have examined more than one of these elements. Parasitism has much in common with predation, and future insights into anti-parasite responses by wild hosts could be gained from the conceptual and technical developments in research on anti-predator behaviour.This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Evolution of pathogen and parasite avoidance behaviours'.
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