Emerging Infectious Disease: Host and Parasite Perspectives

Avian malaria and related haematozoa are nearly ubiquitous parasites that can impose fitness costs of variable severity and may, in some cases, cause substantial mortality in their host populations. One example of the latter, the emergence of avian malaria in the endemic avifauna of Hawaii…

Contents

Chapter I A restriction enzyme-based assay to distinguish between avian hemosporidians
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Chapter II
Prevalence and differential host-specificity of two avian blood parasite genera in the Australo-Papuan region
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Introduction
Materials and Methods
Results
Discussion
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Appendices
Chapter III
Global phylogeographic limits of Hawaii’s avian malaria
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Introduction
Material and Methods
Results and Discussion
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CHAPTER IV
Immunological change in island birds: no uniform evidence of an “island syndrome”
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Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
Table
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Appendix
Bibliography

Author: Beadell, Jon

Source: University of Maryland

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