Biogeography of avian blood parasites (Leucocytozoon spp.) in two resident hosts across Europe: Phylogeographic structuring or the abundance-occupancy relationship?

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 3910-3920

  Jenkins, Tania ^a,b   Owens, Ian P F ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

bird; blood parasite; coevolution; geographic structure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAEMOSPORIDA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SONGBIRD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; HAEMOSPORIDA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AVES; LEUCOCYTOZOON;

EID: 84860390153     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05221.x     Document Type: Article

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