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Worms About Town: a citizen science outreach project discovers microsporidian parasites of nematodes through environmental sampling

2025-12-27

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Environmental sampling of animal species can be a powerful tool for understanding aspects of host-parasite systems like species diversity and mechanisms of host specificity. To this end, we developed a citizen science project called Worms About Town to survey wild nematodes across Toronto, Ontario for microsporidia infection, which are natural fungal parasites of nematodes. Science communication and learning were...

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Literature Corpus work: fb6b7bd5-5afc-5345-af36-298c1099651f
DOI: 10.64898/2025.12.27.696690

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