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Kinsella and something about Lyme. The marsh rice rat carries a hantavirus, but it's apparently transmitted directly rodent-to-rodent, not through a mite or so. As far as I know, there's no real record of diseases caused by the parasites in the rats themselves. On the one hand, I can't image it's good for a rat to have 30,000 worms sitting in its small intestine (Kinsella didn't even bother to count some nematodes individually); on the other hand, every single rice rat Kinsella examined was infected with some parasites, and those are normal populations.
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In most cases, the "common name" would just be an anglicized version of the scientific name (i.e., digeneans, apicomplexans), which doesn't help much. I thought it would be cleaner to consistently use scientific names. For the groups that do have a real common name, it is mentioned in the first line
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I'd like to see more information about parasites in the intro. Do the ectoparasites live on the skin surface? Burrow in the hair follices? Do they feed on flesh rat flesh or dead skin cells? Do they cause diseases to the rats? Do endoparasites flow through the rat's blood? Are they vectors for viral
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Knowledge. I have had to consult many sources to compile this list (and got some help from Lance Durden, who has done some great work on ectoparasites, including those of this species) and I believe it is now
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I know the intro is rather thin, but that is because there are very few synthetic studies of marsh rice rat parasites (in fact, the only one is
Kinsella (1988), which is also only nine pages). There are some papers that do answer some of these questions for individual parasites, of course, but I
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Sorry, I forgot about this (there's disadvantages to having 9000 things on your watchlist). I had a close look, but couldn't see anything to complain about. Very esoteric, but scholarly and thorough. Meets all the criteria for a
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