Greater seasonal variation in blood and ectoparasite infections in a temperate than a tropical population of House Sparrows Passer domesticus in North America

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Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 419-423

  Martin II, Lynn B ^a,b   Pless, Monica I ^a   Wikelski, Martin C ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; ECTOPARASITE; HEMOPARASITE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFECTIVITY; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE RESISTANCE; PASSERINE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

NORTH AMERICA;

PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 34047104511     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00668.x     Document Type: Article

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