Age-related effects on malaria parasite infection in wild chimpanzees

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  De Nys, Hélène M ^a,b   Calvignac Spencer, Sébastien ^a   Thiesen, Ursula ^a   Boesch, Christophe ^b   Wittig, Roman M ^b   Mundry, Roger ^b   Leendertz, Fabian H ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Malaria parasites; Pan troglodytes verus; Plasmodium; Wild great apes

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; FECES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; MALARIA; PARASITOLOGY; PRIMATE; PROTOZOAN; WILD POPULATION;

HOMINIDAE; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES VERUS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; APE DISEASE; ARTICLE; COTE D'IVOIRE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FECES; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA; MALARIA PARASITES; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES VERUS; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WILD GREAT APES; APE DISEASES; PROCEDURES; VETERINARY;

MALARIA PARASITES; PAN TROGLODYTES VERUS; PLASMODIUM; WILD GREAT APES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; APE DISEASES; COTE D'IVOIRE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; MALARIA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84880804472     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.1160     Document Type: Article

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