Parasites in the city: Degree of urbanization predicts poxvirus and coccidian infections in house finches (Haemorhous mexicanus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Giraudeau, Mathieu ^a,c   Mousel, Melanie ^a   Earl, Stevan ^b   McGraw, Kevin ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANARYPOX VIRUS; COCCIDIAL INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FINCH; ISOSPORA; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; POPULATION DENSITY; POXVIRUS INFECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION; ANIMAL; CITY; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POXVIRIDAE; POXVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD; UNITED STATES; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARIZONA; CITIES; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARASITES; POXVIRIDAE; POXVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SONGBIRDS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84896888156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086747     Document Type: Article

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