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Can the intake of antiparasitic secondary metabolites explain the low prevalence of hemoparasites among wild Psittaciformes?

BACKGROUND: Parasites can exert selection pressure on their hosts through effects on survival, on reproductive success, on sexually selected ornament, with important ecological and evolutionary consequences, such as changes in population viability. Consequently, hemoparasites have become the focus o...

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Autores principales: Masello, Juan F., Martínez, Javier, Calderón, Luciano, Wink, Michael, Quillfeldt, Petra, Sanz, Virginia, Theuerkauf, Jörn, Ortiz-Catedral, Luis, Berkunsky, Igor, Brunton, Dianne, Díaz-Luque, José A., Hauber, Mark E., Ojeda, Valeria, Barnaud, Antoine, Casalins, Laura, Jackson, Bethany, Mijares, Alfredo, Rosales, Romel, Seixas, Gláucia, Serafini, Patricia, Silva-Iturriza, Adriana, Sipinski, Elenise, Vásquez, Rodrigo A., Widmann, Peter, Widmann, Indira, Merino, Santiago
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6008929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29921331
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-2940-3