Host associations and evolutionary relationships of avian blood parasites from West Africa

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 257-266

  Beadell, Jon S ^a   Covas, Rita ^b   Gebhard, Christina ^c   Ishtiaq, Farah ^a   Melo, Martim ^b   Schmidt, Brian K ^c   Perkins, Susan L ^d   Graves, Gary R ^c   Fleischer, Robert C ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

DHFR TS; Haemoproteus; Host specificity; Mitochondrial lineage; Plasmodium; Transferase

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BIRD; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTION; HEMOPARASITE; HOST SPECIFICITY; PARASITISM; PROTOZOAN;

AFRICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; HAEMOPROTEUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; BIRDS; CAMEROON; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GABON; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; CENTRAL AFRICA; GABON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

AVES; HAEMOPROTEUS; PLASMODIUM PARASITES;

EID: 57649109671     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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