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Avian malaria in a boreal resident species: long-term temporal variability, and increased prevalence in birds with avian keratin disorder

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Wilkinson, Laura C., Handel, Colleen M., Van Hemert, Caroline, Loiseau, Claire, and Sehgal, Ravinder N. M., Avian malaria in a boreal resident species: long-term temporal variability, and increased prevalence in birds with avian keratin disorder: International journal for parasitology.

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The prevalence of vector-borne parasitic diseases is widely influenced by biological and ecological factors. Environmental conditions such as temperature and precipitation can have a marked effect on haemosporidian parasites (Plasmodium spp.) that cause malaria and those that cause other malaria-like diseases in birds. However, there have been few long-term studies monitoring haemosporidian infections in birds in northern latitudes, where weather conditions can be highly variable and the effects of climate change are becoming more pronounced. We used molecular methods to screen more than 2,000 blood samples collected from black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus), a resident passerine bird. Samples were collected over a 10 year [...]

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  • LC MAP - Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal
  • Northwest Boreal Landscape Conservation Cooperative

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DOI http://sciencebase.gov/vocab/identifierScheme http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2015.12.008
ISSN http://sciencebase.gov/vocab/identifierScheme 0020-7519

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