Parasite-host ecosystem

... knowing that they existed. We do not know what their function is in the ecosystem, is it a keystone species, was it a predator, a parasite, did it influence other species in survival or reproduction, or maybe it had a functioning ...

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... literature review yielded very little. Some literature was found on parasites being a cause of deformities early on in the study, but it was ... that the deformities were simply due to natural variability in the ecosystem and occurred naturally. They suggested that the rates of deformities ...

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