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Digest: Great tits and their ticks: Life‐history traits affect tick fitness

Ectoparasites such as ticks face many challenges to reproduce. They must maximize the size of their blood meal while avoiding being removed by their host. In a new study, Fracasso and colleagues followed the fate of individual ticks to determine which life‐history traits impact tick fitness. Their f...

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Autores principales: Matson, Kevin D., de Boer, Willem F., Ottenburghs, Jente
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9545061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35765778
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.14543