Population structure of avian malaria parasites
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Diversification and host switching in avian malaria parasites.
The switching of parasitic organisms to novel hosts, in which they may cause the emergence of new diseases, is of great concern to human health and the management of wild and domesticated populations of animals. We used a phylogenetic approach to develop a better statistical assessment of host switching in a large sample of vector-borne malaria parasites of birds (Plasmodium and Haemoproteus) o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology and Evolution
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2045-7758,2045-7758
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5356