The ecology of host immune responses to chronic avian haemosporidian infection

Oecologia

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 729-737

  Ellis, Vincenzo A ^a   Kunkel, Melanie R ^a   Ricklefs, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian malaria; Ecoimmunology; Haemosporida; Haptoglobin; Leukocytes

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; PARASITIC DISEASE; PARASITISM;

MISSOURI; OZARK COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

AVES; HAEMOSPORIDA; ICTERIA VIRENS; VIREO OLIVACEUS;

CYTOCHROME B; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; AVIAN MALARIA; BIRD DISEASE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HAEMOSPORIDA; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; SONGBIRD; UNITED STATES; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CYTOCHROMES B; FEMALE; HAEMOSPORIDA; MALARIA, AVIAN; MALE; MISSOURI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84919334335     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-3048-x     Document Type: Article

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