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Effect of urban habitat use on parasitism in mammals: a meta-analysis.
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- A global-scale assessment of zoonotic virus diversity and spillover potential in urban-adapted mammal species.Nature microbiology · 2026Article
- Surveillance of Zoonotic Pathogens in Small Mammals Across Forests With Different Levels of Anthropization in Eastern France.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2026Article
- Use of Contaminated Habitat and Associated Selenium Uptake Mediate Haemosporidian Parasite Infections in Wild Passerine Birds.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Seasonal and biological drivers of gastrointestinal parasites in wild rodents from two areas with different anthropogenic pressures in a semi-arid region.BMC veterinary research · 2025Article
- Effects of Urbanization on Ventral Patch Size and Phenotypic Correlates of Patch Expression in Male Western Fence Lizards (Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
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- Habitat Type-Based Assemblage and Distribution Prediction of Small Mammals and Chigger Mites (Acari: Trombiculidae) in Chuncheon City, Republic of Korea.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Molecular detection ofInternational journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2024Article
- Exploring the potential effects of forest urbanization on the interplay between small mammal communities and their gut microbiota.Animal microbiome · 2024Article
- Rats and their helminth parasites: Potential zoonosis threats of land use change in the northeastern sub-watersheds of Mount Makiling, Laguna, Philippines.Helminthologia · 2024Article
- Immunogenetic-pathogen networks shrink in Tome's spiny rat, a generalist rodent inhabiting disturbed landscapes.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Ecological factors shaping the ectoparasite community assembly of the Azara's Grass Mouse, Akodon azarae (Rodentia: Cricetidae).Parasitology research · 2023Article
- Age-dependent relationships among diet, body condition, and Echinococcus multilocularis infection in urban coyotes.PloS one · 2023Article
- Drivers of the Ectoparasite Community and Co-Infection Patterns in Rural and Urban Burrowing Owls.Biology · 2022Article
- Urban-adapted mammal species have more known pathogens.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
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Abstract
Rates of urbanization are increasing globally, with consequences for the dynamics of parasites and their wildlife hosts. A small subset of mammal species have the dietary and behavioural flexibility to survive in urban settings. The changes that characterize urban ecology-including landscape transformation, modified diets and shifts in community composition-can either increase or decrease susceptibility and exposure to parasites. We used a meta-analytic approach to systematically assess differences in endoparasitism between mammals in urban and non-urban habitats. Parasite prevalence estimates in matched urban and non-urban mammal populations from 33 species were compiled from 46 published studies, and an overall effect of urban habitation on parasitism was derived after controlling for study and parasite genus. Parasite life cycle type and host order were investigated as moderators of the effect sizes. We found that parasites with complex life cycles were less prevalent in urban carnivore and primate populations than in non-urban populations. However, we found no difference in urban and non-urban prevalence for parasites in rodent and marsupial hosts, or differences in prevalence for parasites with simple life cycles in any host taxa. Our findings therefore suggest the disruption of some parasite transmission cycles in the urban ecological community.
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