Prevalence of blood parasites in seabirds - a review

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Quillfeldt, Petra ^a   Arriero, Elena ^a   Martínez, Javier ^b   Masello, Juan F ^a   Merino, Santiago ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; DIOMEDEIDAE; FREGATIDAE; HAEMOPROTEUS; HEPATOZOON; HYDROBATINAE; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 80054992479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-8-26     Document Type: Article

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