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Table 4 The mean percentage (± SE) of observed GIN species for Farm 2 in the samples before and after winter. The last column shows the beta-diversity (MetaStats) significance for differences in the individual parasite species relative abundance before and after winter

From: High levels of third-stage larvae (L3) overwinter survival for multiple cattle gastrointestinal nematode species on western Canadian pastures as revealed by ITS2 rDNA metabarcoding

Species

Pre-winter

Post-winter

P-value (pre-post)

Cooperia oncophora

18.12 ± 1.10

66.36 ± 2.02

0.002

Haemonchus placei

9.36 ± 2.36

0.00 ± 0.00

0.001

Ostertagia ostertagi

72.47 ± 2.79

33.50 ± 1.96

0.001

Nematodirus helvetianus

na

na

na

Trichostrongylus axei

na

na

na

  1. Abbreviation: na, no such species found