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The Parasites of Birds@@@Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos: A Study of Bird Parasites
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This article is published in Journal of Animal Ecology.The article was published on 1952-11-01. It has received 42 citations till now.read more
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General concepts on the evolutionary biology of parasites.
TL;DR: This paper attempts a synthesis of ecology and parasitology, the need for which has been recognized by Kennedy (1975), and it explores the evolutionary implications of parasite ecology.
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Glaucalges tytonis sp. n. (Analgoidea, Xolalgidae) from the barn owl Tyto alba (Strigiformes, Tytonidae): compiling morphology with DNA barcode data for taxon descriptions in mites (Acari)
TL;DR: A method of nondestructive DNA isolation, which leaves the feather mite exoskeleton intact for subsequent morphological analysis, is described, which may be implemented both for feather mites as well as for other groups of Acari.
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Host specificity of a generalist parasite: genetic evidence of sympatric host races in the seabird tick Ixodes uriae
TL;DR: Results suggest that host‐related selection pressures have led to the specialization of I. uriae and that host race formation may be an important diversifying mechanism in parasites.
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Immune defense and host sociality: a comparative study of swallows and martins.
TL;DR: It is shown that the impact of parasites on host reproductive success was positively associated with the degree of sociality in the bird family Hirundinidae, however, the cost of parasitism in highly colonial species was countered by high levels of T‐ and B‐cell immune responses.
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Parasite virulence and host immune defense: host immune response is related to nest reuse in birds.
TL;DR: Comparison of the size of two organs involved in the immune defense between pairs of bird species being either hole or open nesters, or colonially or solitarily nesting birds, respectively, revealed that the bursa of Fabricius and the spleen were consistently larger in hole nesters than in open nester, and similarly in colonially breeding bird species than in solitary breeding species.
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General concepts on the evolutionary biology of parasites.
TL;DR: This paper attempts a synthesis of ecology and parasitology, the need for which has been recognized by Kennedy (1975), and it explores the evolutionary implications of parasite ecology.
Journal ArticleDOI
Glaucalges tytonis sp. n. (Analgoidea, Xolalgidae) from the barn owl Tyto alba (Strigiformes, Tytonidae): compiling morphology with DNA barcode data for taxon descriptions in mites (Acari)
TL;DR: A method of nondestructive DNA isolation, which leaves the feather mite exoskeleton intact for subsequent morphological analysis, is described, which may be implemented both for feather mites as well as for other groups of Acari.
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Host specificity of a generalist parasite: genetic evidence of sympatric host races in the seabird tick Ixodes uriae
TL;DR: Results suggest that host‐related selection pressures have led to the specialization of I. uriae and that host race formation may be an important diversifying mechanism in parasites.
Journal ArticleDOI
Immune defense and host sociality: a comparative study of swallows and martins.
TL;DR: It is shown that the impact of parasites on host reproductive success was positively associated with the degree of sociality in the bird family Hirundinidae, however, the cost of parasitism in highly colonial species was countered by high levels of T‐ and B‐cell immune responses.
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Parasite virulence and host immune defense: host immune response is related to nest reuse in birds.
TL;DR: Comparison of the size of two organs involved in the immune defense between pairs of bird species being either hole or open nesters, or colonially or solitarily nesting birds, respectively, revealed that the bursa of Fabricius and the spleen were consistently larger in hole nesters than in open nester, and similarly in colonially breeding bird species than in solitary breeding species.