Local host specialization, host-switching, and dispersal shape the regional distributions of avian haemosporidian parasites

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 36, 2015, Pages 11294-11299

  Ellis, Vincenzo A ^a,b   Collins, Michael D ^c   Medeiros, Matthew C I ^a   Sari, Eloisa H R ^b   Coffey, Elyse D ^a   Dickerson, Rebecca C ^a,d   Lugarini, Camile ^a,e   Stratford, Jeffrey A ^f   Henry, Donata R ^g   Merrill, Loren ^h   Matthews, Alix E ^c,i   Hanson, Alison A ^c,j   Roberts, Jackson R ^c,k   Joyce, Michael ^a   Kunkel, Melanie R ^a,d   Ricklefs, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c RHODES COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^e Centro Nacional De Pesquisa E Conservação De Aves Silvestres   (Brazil)

^f WILKES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Tulane University   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

ⁱ ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Avian malaria; Community assembly; Emerging infectious disease; Haemosporida; Parasite communities

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD PARASITE; CLIMATE; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAEMOPROTEUS; HAEMOSPORIDA; HOST; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TIME FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

CYTOCHROME B;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; CLIMATE; CYTOCHROMES B; GEOGRAPHY; HAEMOSPORIDA; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941243815     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1515309112     Document Type: Article

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