Attraction of the land snail <i>Anguispira alternata </i>to fresh faeces of white-tailed deer: implications in the transmission of <i>Parelaphostrongylus tenuis</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Terrestrial gastropods serving as intermediate hosts of Parelaphostrongylus tenuis (Dougherty, 1945) are infected either by crawling over infected faeces or by contact with larvae washed off faecal pellets onto surrounding soil. Some studies have concluded that gastropods avoid faeces; therefore, transmission must occur from soil. During two trials, Anguispira alternata (Say, 1816) were offered a choice of two types of larva-free (U) white-tailed deer (WTD; Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann, 1780)) faeces (trial 1) and a choice of larva-containing (L) or larva-free (U) WTD faeces (trial 2) in a laboratory setting. The snails were observed in proximity to U faeces 2.5 times more than expected in trial 1. They were found on faeces 3.4 times more than expected in trial 2, but showed a preference for U faeces, frequenting U faeces 3.1 times more than expected, while frequenting L faeces 1.7 times more than expected. In addition, we feel that this laboratory design could be a useful tool for further investigation of the epizootiology of P. tenuis in important intermediate host species.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".