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Migratory behavior of birds affects their coevolutionary relationship with blood parasites.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Mar 2012
Jenkins Tania, Thomas Gavin H, Hellgren Olof, Owens Ian P F
Abstract excerpt
Host traits, such as migratory behavior, could facilitate the dispersal of disease-causing parasites, potentially leading to the transfer of infections both across geographic areas and between host species. There is, however, little quantitative information on whether variation in such host attributes does indeed affect the evolutionary outcome of host-parasite associations. Here, we employ Leucocytozoon blood...
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