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Heme as a Taste Molecule

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Host Cognition and Parasitism in Birds: A Review of the Main Mechanisms

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Ungulate Helminth Transmission and Two Evolutionary Puzzles

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First Molecular Identification of Trypanosomes and Absence of Babesia sp. DNA in Faeces of Non-Human Primates in the Ecuadorian Amazon

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Resistance and tolerance: A hierarchical framework to compare individual versus family-level host contributions in an experimental amphibian-trematode system

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Intestinal Parasites from Past to Present: Taxonomy, Paleoparasitology, Geographic Distribution, Prevention and Control Strategies

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Gut barrier dysfunction and type 2 immunity: Implications for compulsive behavior

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Editorial: Ecology and Evolution of Non-Consumptive Effects in Host-Parasite Interactions

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Licking their wounds: Social response to trauma by free‐ranging bison ( Bison bison )

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Of mice, ticks, and fleas: host behaviour and co-occurring parasites

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New Developments in Diagnosis of Intestinal Parasites

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Metabolizable energy balance in hair sheep lambs artificially infected with Haemonchus contortus

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Parasite prevalence in a social host has colony-wide impacts on transcriptional activity and survival

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Evaluating the Presence of Disgust in Animals

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Taking cues from ecological and evolutionary theories to expand the landscape of disgust

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Non‐lethal effects of climate change and infectious disease: An energetics approach to understanding population impacts

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Permission to bite: White‐footed mice show no increased grooming response to tick infestation

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Parasite–Host Coevolution

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The Genomic Landscape of Cattle: Domestication, Dispersal, and Adaptive Evolution

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Host Resistance to Parasitic Diseases

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Socializing in an Infectious World: The Role of Parasites in Social Evolution of a Unique Rodent Family

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