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Low prevalence of blood parasites in a long-distance migratory raptor: the importance of host habitat

BACKGROUND: The low prevalence of blood parasites in some bird species may be related to the habitats they frequent, the inexistence of the right host-parasite assemblage or the immunological capacity of the host. Here, we assess the parasite load of breeding populations of Eleonora’s falcon (Falco...

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Autores principales: Gutiérrez-López, Rafael, Gangoso, Laura, Martínez-de la Puente, Josué, Fric, Jakob, López-López, Pascual, Mailleux, Mélanie, Muñoz, Joaquín, Touati, Laïd, Samraoui, Boudjema, Figuerola, Jordi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4381668/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25889120
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0802-9