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Parasites as prey: the effect of cercarial density and alternative prey on consumption of cercariae by four non-host species

Published in Parasitology
doi:10.1017/S0031182017001056

Creators
Jennifer E. Welsh
Caroline Liddell
Jaap van der Meer
David W. Thieltges


This data file includes the raw data of the four separate experiments in the following five columns:

Experiment:
Denotes the different experiments with the four non-host predators: barnacle, crab, oyster, shrimp.

Initial cercarial density:
Number of cercariae initially added to each replicate. Cercarial densities used where 20, 60, 100, and 300.

Alternative prey:
Presence or absence of alternative prey in each replicate.

Block:
Denotes the temporal block (two separate runs on two days) to which each replicate belongs, with '1' denoting the first run/day and '2' denoting the second run/day.

No. remaining cercariae:
Remaining number of cercariae in each replicate as counted at the end of the experiment.
