Do Animals Living in Larger Groups Experience Greater Parasitism? A Meta-Analysis

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  2012-05-24

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1086/666081PMID 22673652
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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