Monday, December 25, 2017

27 YEARS OF "EQUAL RIGHTS FOR PARASITES"


27 YEARS OF “EQUAL RIGHTS FOR PARASITES”
Post # 16
Donald A. Windsor

My catchy slogan, “Equal rights for parasites”, first appeared in the public domain in 1990 in Nature. Its most recent appearance was in 2017, 27 years later in the same journal.

Here is a bibliography of its published appearances over those years in my articles.


Windsor, Donald A. Heavenly hosts. Nature 1990 Nov 8; 348(6297): 104.
Windsor, Donald A. Guest Editorial. Equal rights for parasites. Conservation Biology 1995 Feb; 9(1): 1-2.
Windsor, Donald A. Editorial Bird parasites. The Kingbird 1996 September; 46(3): 190-2.
Windsor, Donald A. Stand up for parasites. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 1997 Jan; 12(1): 32.
Windsor, Donald A. Equal rights for parasites. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 1997 Winter; 40(2): 222-229.
Windsor, Donald A. Equal rights for parasites. BioScience 1998 Apr; 48(4):244.
Windsor, Donald A. Most of the species on Earth are parasites. International Journal for Parasitology 1998 December; 28(12): 1939-1941.
Windsor, Donald A. Parasites’ rights gaining ground. Nature 2017 December 21/28; 552(7685): 334.


A Google search for “equal rights for parasites” (quotes necessary) turns up numerous pages of citations. This slogan is well entrenched in the scientific literature. I certainly hope that it is heeded.

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