Surrogate hosts: Hunting dogs and recolonizing grey wolves share their endoparasites.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how closely related wildlife species and their domesticated counterparts exchange or share parasites, or replace each other in parasite life cycles, is of great interest to veterinary and human public health, and wildlife ecology. Grey wolves (Canis lupus) host and spread endoparasites that can either directly infect canid conspecifics or their prey serving as intermediate hosts of indirectly transmitted species. The wolf recolonization of Central Europe represents an opportunity to study parasite transmission dynamics between wildlife and domestic species for cases when a definitive host returns after local extinction - a situation equivalent to a 'removal experiment'. Here we investigate whether the re-appearance of wolves has increased parasite pressure on hunting d

SUBMITTER: Lesniak I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5605491 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature