Experimental test for premonition in a lizard malaria parasite (Plasmodium mexicanum)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 280-282

  Vardo, Anne M ^a   Kaufhold, Kimberly D ^a   Schall, Jos J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LIZARD; MALARIA; PARASITE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLONE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; LIZARD; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM MEXICANUM; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SUPERINFECTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PARASITOLOGY;

PLASMODIUM MEXICANUM; SCELOPORUS OCCIDENTALIS; SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; GENOTYPE; LIZARDS; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; SUPERINFECTION;

EID: 34249070518     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1005R.1     Document Type: Article

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