A jack-of-all-trades and still a master of some: Prevalence and host range in avian malaria and related blood parasites

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2840-2849

  Hellgren, Olof ^a,c   Pérez Tris, Javier ^b   Bensch, Staffan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avian malaria; Blood parasites; Encounter rate; Haemoproteus; Haemosporidians; Host range; Hostparasite interaction; Plasmodium; Prevalence; Specialists vs.generalists

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ANCESTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENCOUNTER RATE; HEMOPARASITE; HOST RANGE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AVIAN MALARIA; BIRD; EUROPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; EUROPE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MALARIA, AVIAN; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; HAEMOPROTEUS; HAEMOSPORIDA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA);

EID: 70349937800     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1059.1     Document Type: Article

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