Malaria parasites (Plasmodium spp.) infecting introduced, native and endemic New Zealand birds

Parasitology Research

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 913-923

  Howe, Laryssa ^a   Castro, Isabel C ^a   Schoener, Ellen R ^a   Hunter, Stuart ^a   Barraclough, Rosemary K ^b   Alley, Maurice R ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVIAN MALARIA; BIRD; BLACKBIRD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEATH; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FEMALE; HIHI; HOST RANGE; INFECTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; KERERU; KIWI; KOKAKU; MICROSCOPY; MORTALITY; NATIVE SPECIES; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITEMIA; PASSERINE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PIGEON; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM ELONGATUM; PLASMODIUM HUFFIA; PLASMODIUM NOYVELLA; PLASMODIUM RELICTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; BLOOD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, PROTOZOAN; MALARIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW ZEALAND; PARASITEMIA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

APTERYX AUSTRALIS; APTERYX HAASTII; AVES; CALLAEAS CINEREA; COLUMBA; HAEMOSPORIDA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM ELONGATUM; PLASMODIUM RELICTUM; PROTISTA; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 84857040285     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2577-z     Document Type: Article

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