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Ecological drivers of helminth infection patterns in the Virunga Massif mountain gorilla population

  • 1. Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic & Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceskˇ´e Budˇejovice, Czech Republic & Liberec Zoo, Liberec, Czech Republic
  • 2. Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
  • 3. Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 4. Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, Musanze, Rwanda
  • 5. Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic & Department of Pathology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
  • 6. Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
  • 7. Here + There Mapping Solutions, Berlin, Germany
  • 8. Gorilla Doctors (MGVP, Inc.), Davis, CA, USA
  • 9. Sydney School of Veterinary Science, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
  • 10. Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceskˇ´e Budˇejovice, Czech Republic & Department of Pathology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic & Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic & Department of Veterinary Sciences/CINeZ, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 11. Gorilla Doctors (MGVP, Inc.), Davis, CA, USA & School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
  • 12. Rwanda Development Board, Kigali, Rwanda
  • 13. Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature, Kinshasa, Congo
  • 14. Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature, Parc National de Kahuzi Biega, Bukavu, Congo
  • 15. International Gorilla Conservation Programme, Kigali, Rwanda

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Petr, K.J., zelkova, Sama, P., s, Romportl, D., Uwamahoro, C., Cervena, B., Paf, B., co, Prokopova, T., Cameira, R., Granjon, A.C., Shapiro, A., Bahizi, M., Nziza, J., Noheri, J.B., Syaluha, E.K., Eckardt, W., Ndagijimana, F., J., Slapeta, Modrý, D., Gilardi, K., Muvunyi, R., Uwingeli, P., Mudakikwa, A., Mapilanga, J., Kalonji, A., Hickey, J.R., Cranfield, M. (2022): Ecological drivers of helminth infection patterns in the Virunga Massif mountain gorilla population. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 17: 174-184, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2022.01.007, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2022.01.007

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