Fitness effects of endemic malaria infections in a wild bird population: The importance of ecological structure

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1196-1206

  Lachish, Shelly ^a   Knowles, Sarah C L ^a,b   Alves, Ricardo ^a   Wood, Matthew J ^a,c   Sheldon, Ben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avian malaria; plasmodium; Blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus); Host parasite interactions; Life history trade offs; Multistate mark recapture models

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; HEMOPARASITE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALARIA; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PARASITE INFESTATION; PROBABILITY; PROTIST; SURVIVAL; TRADE-OFF; VIRULENCE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AVIAN MALARIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; ENGLAND; GENETIC FITNESS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MALARIA, AVIAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; HAEMOPROTEUS; PLASMODIUM RELICTUM;

EID: 80053654376     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01836.x     Document Type: Article

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