No evidence for avian malaria infection during the nestling phase in a passerine bird.
One of many uncertainties concerning the epidemiology of avian malaria in wild bird populations is the age at first infection. While nestlings, being naked and presumably immunologically naïve would seem a likely stage of first infection, most age-stratified prevalence studies have not examined the...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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