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Brain C, Bohrmann R 1992. Tick infestation of baboons (Papio ursinus) in the Namib Desert. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 28 (2) 188-191

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Tick infestation of baboons_Namib Desert.pdf	596.35 KB

Knapp SE, Krecek RC, Horak IG, Penzhorn BL 1997. Helminths and arthropods of black and white rhinoceroses in southern Africa. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 33 (3) 492-205

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Helminths and arthropods of black and white rhinoceroses in southern Africa.pdf	1.5 MB

McAllister CT, Bursey CR, Freed PS 2011. Endoparasites (Cestoidea, Nematoda, Pentastomida) of Reptiles(Sauria, Ophidia) from the Republic of Namibia. Comparative Parasitology 78 140-151

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Junker K, Horak IG, Penzhorn B 2015. History and development of research on wildlife parasites in southern Africa, with emphasis on terrestrial mammals, especially ungulates. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 4 50-70

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History and development of research on wildlife parasites in southern Africa.pdf	592.58 KB

Prinsloo GL 1984. A new species of Hockeria Walker (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae), parasitic in two gall-inciting Lepidoptera from the Namib Desert, South West Africa. Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa 47 (2) 239-244

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A new species of Hockeria Walker_parasitic in two gall_inciting Lepidoptera from the Namib Desert_1984.pdf	2.55 MB

Muheua S, Zimmermann I 2009. Helminth management in sheep for healthy rangeland.

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Helminth management in sheep for healthy rangeland.pdf	6.55 MB

Dixon JEW 1977. Miscellaneous notes on South West African birds. Madoqua 10 (2) 149 - 151

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Dixon_1977_Madoqua_10_2_birds.pdf	512.17 KB

Suárez-Rodríguez M, Lopez-Rull I, Garcia CM 2012. Incorporation of cigarette butts into nests reduces nest ectoparasite load in urban birds: new ingredients for an old recipe. Biology Letters 9 20120931

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Suarez-Rodriguez et al 2012 Cigarette butts in nests reduce nest ectoparasite load in urban birds.pdf	6.11 MB

Heideman NJL 1991. Oochoristica truncata (Cestoda) infestation of Agama aculeata and A. planiceps (Reptilia: Agamidae) in the Windhoek area. Madoqua 18 (1) 55

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Oochoristica truncata infestation of Agama in Windhoek area.pdf	990.7 KB

Bolin JF, Tennakoon KU, Maass E 2010. Mineral nutrition and heterotrophy in the water conservative holoparasite Hydnora Thunb. (Hydnoraceae). Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 205 (12) 802-810

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367253010000617

Evans AC, Joubert JJ 1989. Intestinal helminths of hospital patients in Kavango territory, Namibia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 83 (5) 681-683

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0035920389903970

Upton SJ, Freed PS, Burdick DA 1992. Description of the oöcysts of three new species of Coccidia (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from lizards in Namibia. Systematic Parasitology 22 (1) 33-37

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00009634

Wesemeier HH, Odening K, Walter G, Bockhardt I 1995. The black-backed jackal (Carnivora: Canidae) in Namibia as intermediate host of two Sarcocystis species (Protozoa: Sarcocystidae). Parasite 2 (4) 391-394

Website link:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8745738

Spitalska E, Riddell M, Heyne H, Sparagano OAE 2005. Prevalence of Theileriosis in Red Hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus caama) in Namibia. Parasitology Research 97 (1) 77-79

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00436-005-1390-y

Turner WC, Getz WM 2010. Seasonal and Demographic Factors Influencing Gastrointestinal Parasitism in Ungulates of Etosha National Park. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 46 (4) 1108-1119

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Seasonal and Demographic Factors Influencing Gastrointestinal Parasitism in Ungulates of Etosha National Park.pdf	499.08 KB

Website link:http://www.jwildlifedis.org/content/46/4/1108.full.pdf+html

Turner WC, Versfeld WD, Kilian JW, Getz WM 2012. Synergistic effects of seasonal rainfall, parasites and demography on fluctuations in springbok body condition. Journal of Animal Ecology 81 (1) 58-69

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01892.x/abstract

Schulze ED, Lange OL, Ziegler H, Gebauer G 1991. Carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of misteltoes growing on nitrogen and non-nitrogen fixing hosts and on CAM plants in the Namib desert confirm partial heterotrophy. Oecologia 88 (4) 457 - 462

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/h322kn46h15q3378/

Bolin JF, Maass E, Musselman LJ 2009. Pollination Biology of Hydnora africana Thumb. (Hydnoraceae) in Namibia: Brood-site mimicry with insect imprisonment. International Journal of Plant Sciences 170 (2) 157 - 163

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1086/593047

Mooring MS, Mazhowu W, Scott CA 1994. The effect of rainfall on tick challenge at Kyle recreational park, Zimbabwe. Experimental and Applied Acarology 18 (9) 507 - 520

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00058934

Norval RAI, Perry BD, Meltzer MI, Kruska RL, Booth TH 1994. Factors affecting the distributions of the ticks Amblyomma hebraeum and A.Variegatum in Zimbabwe - implications of reduced acaricide usage. Experimental and Applied Acarology 18 (7) 383 - 407

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00051522

Fielden LJ, Rechav Y 1996. Survival of six species of African ticks in relation to saturation deficits. Experimental and Applied Acarology 20 (11) 625 - 637

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00053326

Walker JB 1991. A review of the Ixodid ticks (Acari, Ixodidae) occurring in southern Africa. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 58 81 - 105

Petney TN, Kok OB 1993. Birds as predators of ticks (Ixodoidea) in South Africa. Experimental and Applied Acarology 17 (5) 393 - 403

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00058602

Theiler G 1959. African ticks and birds.

Oosthuizen JH, Markus MB 1969. The Haematozoa of South African birds. V. Report on blood smears collected by the September 1967 PFIAO expedition to the Chobe. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 40 (1) 21 - 22

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1969.9634321#.VRvRJGf9kpE

Maclean GL 1973. The Sociable Weaver. Part 4. Predators, parasites and symbionts. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 44 (3-4) 241 - 253

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1973.9639161#.VRpa0mf9kpE

Goldberg SR, Burs CR 2002. Helminths of four species of gekkonid lizards from southern Africa. African Zoology 37 (1) 43-46

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/afzoo/37/1/EJC17814

Goldberg SR, Burs CR 2002. Helminths of seven species of lacertid lizards from southern Africa. African Zoology 37 (2) 159-164

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/afzoo/37/2/EJC17839

Canaris AG, Kinsella JM, Braby R 2003. Helminth parasite communities in two species of shorebirds (Charadrii) from Namibia. Comparative Parasitology 70 (2) 155-161

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1654/4069

Ledger JA 1980. The arthropod parasites of vertebrates in Africa south of the Sahara. Vol IV Phthiraptera (Insecta). Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research 56 1-327

Website link:https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/19800579074

Mény M, Schmidt-Küntzel A, Marker LL 2012. Diagnosis-based treatment of helminths in captive and wild cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 43 (4) 934-938

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1638/2012-0028R1.1

Appleton CC, Brain C 1992. The gastro-intestinal parasites of the baboon, Papio cynocephalus ursinus, in the Namib Desert. Journal of the South African Veterinary Association 33 (3) 257-265

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1995.tb00803.x/abstract

Baines L, Morgan ER, Ofthilfe M, Evans K 2015. Occurrence and seasonality of internal parasite infection in elephants, Loxodonta africana, in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 4 (1) 43-48

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213224415000061

Sturm M, Zimmermann M, Schütz K, Urban W, Hartung H 2009. A sylvatic lifecycle of Echinococcus equinus in the Etosha National Park, Namibia. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 34 (13-16) 776-785

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Lafuma L, Lambrechts MM, Raymond M 2001. Aromatic plants in bird nests as a protection against blood-sucking flying insects?. Behavioural Processes 56 (2) 113-120

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376635701001917

Barnard P, Markus MB 1989. Male copulation frequency and female competition for fertilizations in a promiscuous brood parasite, the Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura. Ibis 131 (3) 421 - 425

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1989.tb02790.x/abstract

Reed CC, Basson L, van As LL 2002. Myxobolus species (Myxozoa), parasites of fishes in the Okavango River and Delta, Botswana, including descriptions of two new species. Folia Parasitol 49 (2) 81-88

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Myxobolus species parasites of fishes in the Okavango River and Delta.pdf	996.4 KB

Maclean GL 1973. The Sociable Weaver. Part 4. Predators, parasites and symbionts. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 44 (3-4) 241 - 253

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1973.9639161#.VRpa0mf9kpE

Holmes JC 1996. Parasites as threats to biodiversity in shrinking ecosystems. Biodiversity and Conservation (5) 975–983

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00054415

Combes C 1996. Parasites, biodiversity and ecosystem stability. Biodiversity and Conservation (5) 953–962

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00054413

Iwasa-Arai T, Serejo CS, Siciliano S, Ott PH, Freire AS, Elwen S, Crespo EA, Colosio AC, Carvalho VL, Rodríguez-Rey GT 2018. The host-specific whale louse (Cyamus boopis) as a potential tool for interpreting humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) migratory routes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology (505) 45-51

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The host_specific whale louse as a potential tool for interpreting humpback whale migratory routes.pdf	1018.5 KB

Biggs HC, Horak IG 1985. Some invasive alien parasites in South West Africa/Namibia. Invasive alien organisms in South West Africa/Namibia 31-34

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Some invasive alien parasites in SWA_Namibia.pdf	203.41 KB

Goldberg SR 2010. Lacertidae: Meroles reticulatus (Bocage, 1867) - Reticulate Sand Lizard: Endoparasites. 36-37

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Elapidae: Naja nivea Linnaeus, 1758 - Cape Cobra: Endoparasites. 29-30

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Goldberg SR, Bursey CR 2012. Gekkonidae: Chondrodactylus bibronii (Smith, 1846) - Bibron's Thick-toed Gecko. 28-30

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Chondrodactylus bibronii_Bibrons Thick_toed Gecko.pdf	153.89 KB

Orlova MV, Laverty TM, Reeves WK, Gratton EM, Davies ML, Anisimov NV 2020. New geographical and host record of bat ectoparasite Steatonyssus (Steatonyssus) afer Radovsky and Yunker, 1963 (Mesostigmata: Gamasina: Macronyssidae). Acarologia 60 (4) 951-958

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Steatonyssus afer is recorded for the first time from Namibia and for the first time from Cistugo seabrae.pdf	2.31 MB

Orlova MV, Laverty TM, Reeves WK, Gratton EM, Davies ML 2020. The first finding of parasitic mite, Parasteatonyssus nyctinomi (Mesostigmata: Gamasina: Macronyssidae), in Namibia. Journal of the South African Veterinary Association 91 (0) a2002

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The first finding of parasitic mite_Parasteatonyssus nyctinomi in Namibia.pdf	1.09 MB

Reeves WK, Laverty TM, Gratton EM, Mushabati LF, Eiseb SJ 2020. New national records for Cyclopodia greeffi greeffi (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) from the Kunene Region, Namibia, Africa. Entomological News 129 (3) 327-329

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New national records for Cyclopodia greeffi greeffi from the Kunene Region.pdf	187.14 KB

Turner WC, Küsters M, Versfeld W, Horak IG 2017. Ixodid tick diversity on wild mammals, birds, and reptiles in and around Etosha National Park, Namibia. African Journal of Ecology 55 (4) 714-721

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Ixodid tick diversity on wild mammals_birds_and reptiles in and around Etosha National Park_Namibia.pdf	190.01 KB

Seltmann A, Schares G, Aschenborn OH-K, Heinrich SK, Thalwitzer S, Wachter B, Czirjak GA 2020. Species-specific differences in Toxoplasma gondii, Neospora caninum and Besnoitia besnoiti seroprevalence in Namibian wildlife. Parasites and Vectors 13 (7) 1-12

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Differences in Toxoplasma gondii_Neospora caninum and Besnoitia besnoiti seroprevalence in Namibian wildlife.pdf	1.59 MB