A Megafauna’s Microfauna: Gastrointestinal Parasites of New Zealand’s Extinct Moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes)

We perform the first multidisciplinary study of parasites from an extinct megafaunal clade using coprolites from the New Zealand moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes). Ancient DNA and microscopic analyses of 84 coprolites deposited by four moa species (South Island giant moa, Dinornis robustus; little bush m...

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Autores principales: Wood, Jamie R., Wilmshurst, Janet M., Rawlence, Nicolas J., Bonner, Karen I., Worthy, Trevor H., Kinsella, John M., Cooper, Alan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3581471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23451203
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057315

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3581471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23451203
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057315

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