Biological Science (6th Edition)
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Author: Scott Freeman, Kim Quillin, Lizabeth Allison, Michael Black, Emily Taylor, Greg Podgorski, Jeff Carmichael
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Chapter 52, Problem 13PIAT
Deer are hosts of ticks but are not reservoirs of B. burgdorferi— their immune systems detect and kill the bacterium. But a tick with a prior bacterial infection can consume a blood meal from a deer and then bite and infect a human. The fitness effects of a deer on B. burgdorferi can be summarized as:
a. + because the deer supplies the bacterium with food.
b. – because the deer kills the bacteria in its blood.
c. + because the deer feeds and disperses the tick that can then infect a human with the bacterium.
d. – or + depending on whether the deer is the tick’s last host.
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