Absence of haemosporidian parasite infections in the long-lived Cory’s shearwater: evidence from molecular analyses and review of the literature
The apparent scarcity or absence of blood parasites in some avian groups, such as seabirds, has been related to intrinsic and extrinsic factors including host immunological capacity, host-parasite assemblage, and ecological parameters, but also to reduced sensitivity of some methods to detect low pa...
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/5909 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorio.ispa.pt:10400.12/5909 |