Species limits in avian malaria parasites (Haemosporida): How to move forward in the molecular era

Parasitology

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1223-1232

  Outlaw, Diana C ^a   Ricklefs, Robert E ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian malaria; Haemosporida; species limits

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AVIAN MALARIA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAEMOSPORIDA; HOST; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ANIMAL; BIRD; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AVES; HAEMOSPORIDA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HAEMOSPORIDA; MALARIA, AVIAN; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84926419686     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182014000560     Document Type: Review

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