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Genetic structure and evolved malaria resistance in Hawaiian honeycreepers.
Molecular ecology - 1 Nov 2007
Foster Jeffrey T, Woodworth Bethany L, Eggert Lori E, Hart Patrick J, Palmer Danielle, Duffy David C, Fleischer Robert C
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Infectious diseases now threaten wildlife populations worldwide but population recovery following local extinction has rarely been observed. In such a case, do resistant individuals recolonize from a central remnant population, or do they spread from small, perhaps overlooked, populations of resistant individuals? Introduced avian malaria (Plasmodium relictum) has devastated low-elevation populations of native...
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