How To Use Ectoparasite In A Sentence
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Cavity-nesting hosts will often face ectoparasites during reproduction.
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But the two ‘explanations’ aren’t mutually exclusive, as the teeth could still have been important in ectoparasite control.
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We measured various indicators of male health and condition, including the intensity of infection from ectoparasites and blood parasites.
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On the other hand, a ectoparasite is a disproportionate burden for an act of love.
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Fifth, we test for correlations between ectoparasites and blood parasites.
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In the previous post we saw how avian bill morphology is crucial to the control of parasites, an assertion that comes from recent studies of bill shape and ectoparasite control in scrub-jays, pigeons and numerous Neotropical bird species.
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view
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Could those little premaxillary teeth have been specialized for ectoparasite control?
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view
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The species identities of the acarine ectoparasites were not determined.
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The ectoparasites, in particular the hematophagous swallow bug (Hemiptera: Cimicidae: Oeciacus vicarius), are responsible for much of the nestling mortality and nest failures that occur in our study area.
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Terrestrial birds whose plumage is superficially similar to that of fuzzy small theropods are notorious for harbouring ectoparasites, with kiwis in particular being reported to crawl with numerous fleas, ticks, feather mites and lice (Kleinpaste 1991).
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It also provides the first evidence for an interspecific association between two ectoparasite species.
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Could these serrations have been used in ectoparasite control?
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It is clear (I made the point a few times in the previous post) that ectoparasite control is one of the bill's functions, but it does not follow that bills evolved for ectoparasite control.
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view
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In Dinosaurs of the Air Greg Paul illustrated a Sinosauropteryx scratching in order to remove ectoparasites, and the cover of The Dinosauria, Second Edition (the current industry-standard volume on dinosaurs) features a Sinosauropteryx (this time by Mark Hallett) nibbling at its proto-feathers, again presumably as a form of ectoparasite control.
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view
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A feather with possible ectoparasite eggs from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian) of Brazil.
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view
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The negative association between the two ectoparasites suggests that hen fleas could impose selection pressures on the evolution of Protocalliphora life history traits.
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Note that ectoparasite intensity was not significantly correlated with the date of its census, and brood size was not associated with female plumage spottiness.
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The horn fly, Haematobia irritans, is probably the most important economically damaging ectoparasite of grazing cattle.
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She confirmed that endoparasites and ectoparasites also attack and reduce sheep production.
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Several ectoparasite species often infect the same nest, and host responses against one parasite could affect the fitness of other ectoparasites and modify ectoparasite communities.
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Woodcreepers sunbathe and have been seen anting, a behavior that is thought to help prevent or remove ectoparasites.
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The ectoparasites, in particular the hematophagous swallow bug (Hemiptera: Cimicidae: Oeciacus vicarius), are responsible for much of the nestling mortality and nest failures that occur in our study area.
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The examination of 278 hosts of 16 species yielded 11,030 ectoparasites representing six families of Insecta and eleven families of Acari.
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Sucking lice are exclusively hematophagous ectoparasites of eutherian (placental) mammals, and are worldwide distribution.
