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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Blog post: http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2017/09/when-two-lines-of-research-collide.html

Zen Faulkes
The Umiversity of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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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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