Factors associated with the geographic distribution of leucocytozoa parasitizing nestling eagle owls (Bubo bubo): A local spatial-scale analysis

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1479-1487

  Ortego, Joaquín ^a   Cordero, Pedro J ^b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bubo bubo; Disease ecology; Leucocytozoon; MtDNA; Parasite transmission

Indexed keywords

DISEASE VECTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PARASITE INTENSITY; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITIC DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR; SEA LEVEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

BUBO BUBO; LEUCOCYTOZOON; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 77953915942     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-009-9978-x     Document Type: Article

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