Diversity, prevalence, and host specificity of avian plasmodium and Haemoproteus in a western Amazon assemblage

Ornithological Monographs

Volumn 76, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-47

  Svensson Coelho, Maria ^a,b   Blake, John G ^a,c   Loiselle, Bette A ^a,c   Penrose, Amanda S ^a   Parker, Patricia G ^a   Ricklefs, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

avian blood parasites; Avian malaria; community ecology; compound community; Neotropics; parasite diversity; parasite prevalence.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891507852     PISSN: 00786594     EISSN: 19412282     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1525/om.2013.76.1.1     Document Type: Article

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