Blood parasites in Owls with conservation implications for the Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Ishak, Heather D ^a   Dumbacher, John P ^a,b   Anderson, Nancy L ^c   Keane, John J ^d   Valkiünas, Gediminas ^e   Haig, Susan M ^f   Tell, Lisa A ^g   Sehgal, Ravinder N M ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Lindsay Wildlife Museum   (United States)

^d PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^e VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^f FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD PARASITE; COCCIDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMOPROTEUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LEUCOCYTOZOON; LEUCOCYTOZOON DANILEWSKYI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OWL; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; SCREENING TEST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STRIX OCCIDENTALIS; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY;

AVES; HAEMOPROTEUS; LEUCOCYTOZOON; PLASMODIUM PARASITES; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX OCCIDENTALIS; STRIX OCCIDENTALIS CAURINA; STRIX VARIA;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; PARASITEMIA; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 48449084184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002304     Document Type: Article

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