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Table 1 Variation in the prevalence of mites and ticks among years

From: Environmental variation mediates the prevalence and co-occurrence of parasites in the common lizard, Zootoca vivipara

Parasite	Year	Male		Female		Overall
Parasite	Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Mite	2012	121	18.2	165	8.5	286	12.6
	2014	88	52.3	178	29.2	266	36.8
	2015	53	18.9	170	13.5	223	14.8
Tick	2012	121	11.6	165	10.3	286	10.8
	2014	88	21.6	178	14.6	266	16.9
	2015	53	26.4	170	18.8	223	20.6

Number is the total number of individuals examined per sex (for a grand total of 262 males and 513 females) and per year. The prevalence is given as the percent of sampled individuals with either mites or ticks

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