Molecular epidemiology of malaria prevalence and parasitaemia in a wild bird population.

Journal article

Avian malaria (Plasmodium spp.) and other blood parasitic infections of birds constitute increasingly popular model systems in ecological and evolutionary host-parasite studies. Field studies of these parasites commonly use two traits in hypothesis testing: infection status (or prevalence at the population level) and parasitaemia, yet the causes of variation in these traits remain poorly understood. Here, we use quantitative PCR to investigate fine-scale environmental and host predictors of m...

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Authors: Knowles, S; Wood, M; Alves, R; Wilkin, T; Bensch, S

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Molecular ecology
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 1062-1076
• Publication date: 2011-03-01
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2010.04909.x
• EISSN: 1365-294X
• ISSN: 0962-1083
• Language: English
• Keywords: Longitudinal Studies; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Molecular Epidemiology; Clutch Size; Great Britain; Passeriformes; Environment; Age Factors; Female; Male; Prevalence; Parasitemia; Animals; Plasmodium; Cross-Sectional Studies; Malaria, Avian