Patterns in avian malaria at founder and source populations of an endemic New Zealand passerine

Parasitology Research

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2077-2089

  Baillie, Shauna M ^a,d   Gudex Cross, David ^a   Barraclough, Rosemary K ^a,b   Blanchard, Wade ^c   Brunton, Dianne H ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTHORNIS MELANURA; ARTICLE; AVIAN MALARIA; BIRD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM ELONGATUM; PLASMODIUM RELICTUM; PLASMODIUM VAUGHANI; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; MALARIA, AVIAN; NEW ZEALAND; PASSERIFORMES; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS;

ANTHORNIS MELANURA; AVES; PASSERIFORMES; PLASMODIUM ELONGATUM; PLASMODIUM RELICTUM; PLASMODIUM SP.;

EID: 84868136512     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-012-3055-y     Document Type: Article

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