Haemosporidian infections and host behavioural variation: a case study on wild-caught nightingales (Luscinia megarhynchos)

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 126-137

  Marinov, M P ^a   Zehtindjiev, P ^a   Dimitrov, D ^a   Ilieva, M ^a   Bobeva, A ^a   Marchetti, C ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

avian malaria; chronic infection; host parasite interactions; passerine birds; risk taking

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BODY CONDITION; HEMOPARASITE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MALARIA; PASSERINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BULGARIA;

AVES; HAEMOSPORIDA; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS; PASSERIFORMES; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84946867109     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2015.1102776     Document Type: Article

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