Effect of Haemoproteus belopolskyi (Haemosporida: Haemoproteidae) on body mass of the blackcap Sylvia atricapilla

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1123-1125

  Valkiunas, Gediminas ^a   Žičkus, Tadas ^a   Shapoval, Anatoly P ^b   Iezhova, Tatjana A ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; NESTLING; PARASITIC DISEASE; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY MASS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES IMPUNCTATUS; HAEMOPROTEUS BELOPOLSKYI; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PECTORAL MUSCLE; PROTOZOON; SPOROZOITE; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; FEMALE; HAEMOSPORIDA; INSECT VECTORS; PARASITEMIA; PASSERIFORMES; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; WEIGHT LOSS;

AVES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICOIDES IMPUNCTATUS; HAEMOPROTEUS BELOPOLSKYI; HAEMOSPORIDA; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA;

EID: 33845256395     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3564-RN.1     Document Type: Article

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