A new study by Anele and colleagues mapped Xenopus frogs and their helminth parasites across Nigeria, identifying 5 frog species and 13 parasite species. The work reveals patterns of host specificity, ecological distribution, and tissue specialization.
African clawed frogs (Xenopus species) are distributed across sub-Saharan Africa, live in water, and are hosts to diverse parasites whose distributions and host-specificities are incompletely…
