Low haemosporidian diversity and one key-host species in a bird malaria community on a mid-atlantic island (São Miguel, Azores)

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 849-859

  Hellgren, Olof ^a,c   Križanauskiene, Asta ^b   Hasselquist, Dennis ^c   Bensch, Staffan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Azores; Haemoproteus; Key host; Leucocytozoon; Plasmodium; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84055188761     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-47.4.849     Document Type: Article

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