Parasites represent a significant proportion of Earth's biodiversity and play important roles in
the ecology and biology of ecosystems and hosts, making them an important target for …

Island systems provide excellent arenas to test evolutionary hypotheses pertaining to gene
flow and diversification of dispersal-limited organisms. Here we focus on an orbweaver …

Background In free-ranging reptile populations, bacterial, fungal, viral and parasitic
pathogens may affect hosts through impairment in movements, thermoregulation …

Chelonoidis carbonarius is host to a great diversity of endoparasites. This research aimed to
identify and taxonomically classify the parasitic forms of endoparasites found in the feces of …

Pentastomes are crustacean endoparasites in the lungs of herpetofauna and rarely
mammals and birds. To date, the only pentastomes reported in chelonians, all aquatic …

This study identifies the endoparasites in Red-footed tortoises (Chelonoidis carbonaria)
during March 2018 to March 2019 from Grenada, West Indies. Fecal samples from a total of …

Colonization comprises the physical arrival of a species in a new area, but also its
successful establishment within the local community. Oceanic islands, like the Hawaiian and …

Several factors influence the dynamics and structure of parasite communities. Our goal was
to investigate how the community composition, prevalence and abundance of parasites …

This study was undertaken to determine the prevalence and intensity of gastrointestinal
parasites in wild Testudo graeca tortoises in Morocco. A total of 102 tortoises sampled in two …

Helminthological studies may contribute with valuable information on host biology and
conservation. Herein, we provide new data on helminths infecting the lizard Norops …