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Table 5 The mean percentage (± SE) of observed GIN species for Farm 3 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

1.12 ± 1.01

10.62 ± 8.43

0.006

Haemonchus placei

na

na

na

Ostertagia ostertagi

95.25 ± 2.97

82.04 ± 5.33

0.004

Nematodirus helvetianus

1.28 ± 1.23

2.02 ± 0.68

0.001

Trichostrongylus axei

2.38 ± 0.89

5.31 ± 2.70

0.069

  1. Abbreviation: na, no such species found