High prevalence of blood parasites in social birds from a neotropical savanna in Brazil

Emu

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 132-138

  Fecchio, Alan ^a   Lima, Marcos Robalinho ^a   Silveira, Patrícia ^b   Braga, Érika Martins ^b   Marini, Miguel Ângelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

avian malaria; breeding biology; haemosporidian parasites

Indexed keywords

BIOME; BODY MASS; CERRADO; EUSOCIALITY; FITNESS; HEMOPARASITE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MALARIA; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SAVANNA; SURVIVAL;

BRAZIL;

AVES; HAEMOPROTEUS; HAEMOSPORIDA; PASSERIFORMES; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA);

EID: 79957806922     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU10063     Document Type: Article

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