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Publisher Correction: Towards an ecosystem model of infectious disease
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Parasites — and other infectious agents — can have a major impact on an ecosystem, by targeting a prominent prey or predator species. But a study of the biomass of free-living and parasitic species in three es...
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In 1994, Mycoplasma gallisepticum, a common bacterial poultry pathogen, caused an epidemic in house finches in the eastern part of their North American range where the species had been introduced in the 1940s. Bi...
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Local data are vital to worldwide conservation
