Infectious Offspring: How Birds Acquire and Transmit an Avian Polyomavirus in the Wild

Detailed patterns of primary virus acquisition and subsequent dispersal in wild vertebrate populations are virtually absent. We show that nestlings of a songbird acquire polyomavirus infections from larval blowflies, common nest ectoparasites of cavity-nesting birds, while breeding adults acquire an...

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Autores principales: Potti, Jaime, Blanco, Guillermo, Lemus, Jesús Á., Canal, David
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2093992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18060070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001276

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2093992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18060070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001276

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