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Social contact behaviors are associated with infection status for Trichuris sp. in wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus)

Social grooming in the animal kingdom is common and serves several functions, from removing ectoparasites to maintaining social bonds between conspecifics. We examined whether time spent grooming with others in a highly social mammal species was associated with infection status for gastrointestinal...

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Autores principales: Wren, Brandi, Ray, Ian S., Remis, Melissa, Gillespie, Thomas R., Camp, Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8059843/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33882065
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240872