Group size and nest spacing affect buggy creek virus (togaviridae: Alphavirus) infection in nestling house sparrows

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  O'Brien, Valerie A ^a,b   Brown, Charles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA VIRUS; ARTICLE; BUGGY CREEK VIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NEST PREDATION; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; POPULATION SIZE; SPARROW; TOGAVIRUS INFECTION; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASE; NESTING; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ALPHAVIRUS; ARBOVIRUS; ARTHROPODA; BUGGY CREEK VIRUS; HIRUNDINIDAE; OECIACUS VICARIUS; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE; PETROCHELIDON PYRRHONOTA; TOGAVIRIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ALPHAVIRUS; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SPARROWS;

EID: 80053136587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025521     Document Type: Article

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