How has agriculture influenced the geography and genetics of animal parasites?
Have farmers inadvertently promoted the distribution, and limited the diversity, of animal parasites? Abundant and broadly distributed livestock hosts evidently harbor exceptionally uniform populations of Trichinella, Taenia, Toxoplasma and Sarcocystis, indicating a fruitful avenue for future research on how we have influenced parasite evolutionary ecology.
Rosenthal
Benjamin M
BM
Animal Parasitic Disease Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MA 20705-2350, USA. benjamin.rosenthal@ars.usda.gov
D000383:Agriculture; D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003710:Demography; D004197:Disease Reservoirs / Q000662:veterinary; D017753:Ecosystem; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D010273:Parasitic Diseases, Animal / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015047:Zoonoses