Sensitive measure of prevalence and parasitaemia of haemosporidia from European blackbird (<i>Turdus merula</i>) populations: value of PCR-RFLP and quantitative PCR

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Haemosporidian parasites are common in birds in which they act as an important selective pressure. While most studies so far have focused on the effect of their prevalence on host life-history traits, no study has measured the effect of parasitaemia. We developed molecular methods to detect, identify and quantify haemosporidia in 2 natural populations of the Blackbird Turdus merula. Three different parasite...

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