Figure 1.
Prevalence of Laelapid mites found on highveld mole-rats during A) by colony sampled (*indicate colonies that have been sampled repeatedly) and B) during winter and summer.
Table 1.
Summary of the parasites found and their infection parameters in highveld mole-rats.
Table 2.
Results of GEE's evaluating the effects of life-history traits, season and colony size on mite loads in highveld mole-rats (n = 124).
Figure 2.
Correlation between colony size and abundance of laelapid mites found on highveld mole-rats.
Figure 3.
Prevalence of Mathevotaenia sp. in highveld mole-rats A) by colony sampled (*indicate colonies that have been sampled repeatedly) and B) during winter and summer.
Figure 4.
Status-dependent differences in Mathevotaenia sp. abundance (mean ± SD) in highveld mole-rats.
Table 3.
Results of GEE's evaluating the effects of life-history traits, season and colony size on cestode loads in highveld mole-rats (n = 87 for prevalence, n = 46 for abundance).