A Megafauna's Microfauna: Gastrointestinal Parasites of New Zealand's Extinct Moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Wood, Jamie R ^a   Wilmshurst, Janet M ^a   Rawlence, Nicolas J ^b,e   Bonner, Karen I ^a   Worthy, Trevor H ^b,c   Kinsella, John M ^d   Cooper, Alan ^b  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d Helm West Laboratory   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOPTERYX DIDIFORMIS; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLADISTICS; COCCIDIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DINORNIS ROBUSTUS; DINORNITHIFORMES; DNA DETERMINATION; ECHINOSTOMA; EIMERIA; EXTINCT SPECIES; HETERAKOIDEA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; INTESTINE PARASITE; MEGALAPTERYX DIDINUS; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NEMATODE; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PACHYORNIS ELAPHANTOPUS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TREMATODE; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHUROIDEA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; DNA PRIMERS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; NEW ZEALAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84874386351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057315     Document Type: Article

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