Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in Galapagos birds: Inference of risk factors associated with diet. by Juan D Mosquera, Carlos A Valle, Ainoa Nieto-Claudin, Birgit Fessl, Gregory A Lewbart, Diane Deresienski, Leïla Bouazzi, Sonia Zapata, Isabelle Villena, Marie-Lazarine Poulle

“…Plasma samples were obtained from 163 land birds inhabiting Santa Cruz, one of the cat-inhabited islands, and from 187 seabirds breeding in cat-free surrounding islands (Daphne Major, North Seymour, and South Plaza). These samples were tested for the presence of T. gondii antibodies using the modified agglutination test (MAT ≥ 1:10). …”
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The terroir of the finch: How spatial and temporal variation shapes phenotypic traits in Darwin's finches by Paola L. Carrión, Joost A. M. Raeymaekers, Luis Fernando De León, Jaime A. Chaves, Diana M. T. Sharpe, Sarah K. Huber, Anthony Herrel, Bieke Vanhooydonck, Kiyoko M. Gotanda, Jennifer A. H. Koop, Sarah A. Knutie, Dale H. Clayton, Jeffrey Podos, Andrew P. Hendry

“…However, these results changed dramatically when we excluded data from Daphne Major, indicating that the strong effect of terroir was mostly driven by that particular population. …”
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Health status of the red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus) determined by hematology, biochemistry, blood gases, and physical examination by Alice Skehel, Catalina Ulloa, Diane Deresienski, Cristina Regalado, Juan Pablo Muñoz-Pérez, Juan Augusto Garcia, Britta Denise Hardesty, Ronald K. Passingham, Jason Steve Castañeda, Gregory A. Lewbart, Carlos A. Valle

“…Blood analyses were performed on samples drawn from 51 clinically healthy red-billed tropicbirds captured from their burrows at Islote Pitt on San Cristóbal Island in July, 2016 (21) and Daphne Major Island in June, 2017 (30). In the field, a point of care blood analyser (iSTAT) was used to obtain results for HCO3-, pH, pCO2, pO2, TCO2, iCa, Na, K, Cl, Hb, HCT, anion gap, creatinine, glucose and urea nitrogen. …”
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