| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Authors: | Anisimova, EI |
| Journal: | Helminthologia |
| Volume: | 39 |
| Pagination: | 87-90 |
| Date Published: | 2002 |
| Keywords: | Lutra lutra |
| Abstract: | A total of 60 otters and 101 polecats were processed by the standard helminthological methods. Our results are evidence of the considerable difference in the infestation of the two species of mustelids. The level of infestation of the mustelid populations mainly relates their ecological niches, which determine different probability to be more intensively infested by higher diversity of helminths. Research has shown that the more various ecosystems were inhabited by a mustelid species and its food spectra were wider, the more intensively the mustelid species was infested. |
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