Demographic and ecological effects on patterns of parasitism in eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in Gombe National Park, Tanzania

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 534-544

  Gillespie, Thomas R ^a,b   Lonsdorf, Elizabeth V ^c   Canfield, Elizabeth P ^a   Meyer, Derek J ^d   Nadler, Yvonne ^c   Raphael, Jane ^c,e,f   Pusey, Anne E ^g   Pond, Joel ^c   Pauley, John ^c   Mlengeya, Titus ^f   Travis, Dominic A ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Illinois ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^e Gombe Stream Research Centre   (Tanzania)

^f Tanzanian National Park Authority   (Tanzania)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

apes; gastrointestinal parasites; health; noninvasive analyses; zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CESTODE; CHIMPANZEE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PREVALENCE; PRIMATE; PROTOZOON; SEX DIFFERENCE; TANZANIA;

AMOEBOZOA; ANIMALS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FECES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HELMINTHS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEASONS; TANZANIA;

EID: 78649653371     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21348     Document Type: Article

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