Ecological nuance and comparative parasitology of sympatric canids in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone.

C N Love, S C Webster, D Shamovich, M E Byrne, T G Hinton, P E Schlichting, J C Beasley, V Dombrovski, S L Lance

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Article in International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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9 authors.

C N LoveSavannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Aiken, SC, 29803, USA.

S C WebsterSavannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Aiken, SC, 29803, USA.

D ShamovichSosnovy Bor, Vitebsk Region, Belarus.

M E ByrneSchool of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.

T G HintonInstitute of Environmental Radioactivity, Fukushima University, 1 Kanayagawa, Fukushima, 960-1296, Japan.

P E SchlichtingSavannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Aiken, SC, 29803, USA.

J C BeasleySavannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Aiken, SC, 29803, USA.

V DombrovskiNational Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus.

S L LanceSavannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Aiken, SC, 29803, USA.

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Abstract

Anthropogenic environmental contamination, including ionizing radiation, can reshape host-parasite dynamics through direct and indirect ecological pathways, yet parasite communities in radioactively contaminated landscapes remain poorly characterized. Wildlife from the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) are chronically exposed to elevated ionizing radiation across a heterogeneous contamination gradient and human-abandoned landscape, offering a rare opportunity to examine host-parasite-environment interactions under long-term radiation exposure. We characterized pathogen and parasite communities in two sympatric wild canids, gray wolves (

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Chornobyl Exclusion ZoneGray wolf (Canis lupus)Host-parasite interactionsIonizing radiationParasite community ecologyRaccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)RadioecologyWildlife disease

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PMID42859625

DOI10.1016/j.ijppaw.2026.101281

PMCPMC13653432

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