Age-dependent relationships among diet, body condition, and Echinococcus multilocularis infection in urban coyotes

• Scott Sugden ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ssugden@ualberta.ca

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6482-4733

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• Deanna K. Steckler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Dana Sanderson,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Bill Abercrombie,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Damage Control, Bushman Inc., Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada

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• Duncan Abercrombie,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Damage Control, Bushman Inc., Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada

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• M. Alexis Seguin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., Westbrook, Maine, United States of America

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• Kyra Ford,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Colleen Cassady St. Clair

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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