Host specificity in avian blood parasites: A study of Plasmodium and Haemoproteus mitochondrial DNA amplified from birds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1452, 2000, Pages 1583-1589

  Bensch, S ^a   Stjernman, M ^a   Hasselquist, D ^a   Ostman, O ^a   Hansson, B ^a   Westerdahl, H ^a   Pinheiro, R T ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acrocephalus; Cytochrome b Malaria; Host parasite coevolution; Parus; Phylloscopus

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; DNA FRAGMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

AVIFAUNA; BLOOD PARASITE; DNA; HOST SPECIFICITY;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HAPLOTYPE; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACROCEPHALUS; AVES; HAEMOPROTEUS; PARUS; PARUS CAERULEUS; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLLOSCOPUS; PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOA; SALIX; TROCHILUS;

EID: 0034617941     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1181     Document Type: Article

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