What is it about?
This paper looks at the parasites of two digging crabs species. One, a sand crab, is regularly infected with tapeworms that infect the brain, and nematode worms. The other, a mole crab, is rarely infected by either, possibly because it filter feeds.
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Why is it important?
It's part of a series of papers trying to understand the basic biology of sand crabs, none of which are well understood.
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This page is a summary of: Filtering out parasites: sand crabs (Lepidopa benedicti) are infected by more parasites than sympatric mole crabs (Emerita benedicti), PeerJ, September 2017, PeerJ,
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3852.
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