Exploring the Diversity and Distribution of Neotropical Avian Malaria Parasites - A Molecular Survey from Southeast Brazil

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Lacorte, Gustavo A ^a   Flix, Gabriel M F ^a   Pinheiro, Rafael R B ^a   Chaves, Anderson V ^a   Almeida Neto, Gilberto ^a   Neves, Frederico S ^a   Leite, Lemuel O ^b   Santos, Fabrício R ^a   Braga, Érika M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF MONTES CLAROS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITAT; HAEMOPROTEUS; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRAZIL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; HAEMOSPORIDA; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MALARIA, AVIAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

EID: 84874580786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057770     Document Type: Article

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