Blood parasites, reproduction and sexual selection in the red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio)

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 431-439

  Votýpka, Jan ^a,b   Šimek, Jaroslav ^c   Tryjanowski, Piotr ^d  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^d ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOPARASITE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

HAEMOPROTEUS; KINETOPLASTIDA; LANIUS; LANIUS COLLURIO; LEUCOCYTOZOON; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PLASMODIUM SP.; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA SP.; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344823711     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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