Mixed species flock, nest height, and elevation partially explain avian haemoparasite prevalence in Colombia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  González, Angie D ^a   Matta, Nubia E ^a   Ellis, Vincenzo A ^b   Miller, Eliot T ^b   Ricklefs, Robert E ^b   Gutiérrez, H Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD PARASITE; BODY MASS; COLOMBIA; DIET; DISEASE CARRIER; FORAGING; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; HAEMOPROTEUS; HEPATOZOON; HERD; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RATE; LEUCOCYTOZOON; LIFE HISTORY; MICROFILARIA (NEMATODE LARVA); NEST HEIGHT; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEA LEVEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TRYPANOSOMA; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HAEMOSPORIDA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ECOSYSTEM; HAEMOSPORIDA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84903292694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100695     Document Type: Article

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