Avian host community structure and prevalence of West Nile virus in Chicago, Illinois

Oecologia

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 415-424

  Loss, Scott R ^a,e   Hamer, Gabriel L ^b   Walker, Edward D ^c   Ruiz, Marilyn O ^a   Goldberg, Tony L ^a   Kitron, Uriel D ^d   Brawn, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dilution effect; Host competence; Reservoir host; Sentinel species; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ANNUAL VARIATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; METROPOLITAN AREA; MOSQUITO; SPECIES RICHNESS; VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; CHICAGO; CULEX; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA PRIMERS; INSECT VECTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WEST NILE VIRUS;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CARDINALIS CARDINALIS; VERTEBRATA; WEST NILE VIRUS; ZENAIDA MACROURA;

EID: 60349129929     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1224-6     Document Type: Article

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