Environmental temperature affects prevalence of blood parasites of birds on an elevation gradient: Implications for disease in a warming climate

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Zamora Vilchis, Itzel ^a   Williams, Stephen E ^a   Johnson, Christopher N ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BLOOD PARASITE; COLD CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPARASITE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HAEMOPROTEUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LEUCOCYTOZOON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TROPICS; TRYPANOSOMA;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BIRDS; MALARIA, AVIAN; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84862580401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039208     Document Type: Article

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