Repeatability of feather mite prevalence and intensity in passerine birds.

Repeatability of feather mite prevalence and intensity in passerine birds.

Understanding why host species differ so much in symbiont loads and how this depends on ecological host and symbiont traits is a major issue in the ecology of symbiosis. A first step in this inquiry is to know whether observed differences among host species are species-specific traits or more relate...

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Main Authors: Javier Diaz-Real, David Serrano, Javier Pérez-Tris, Sofía Fernández-González, Ana Bermejo, Juan A Calleja, Javier De la Puente, Diana De Palacio, José L Martínez, Rubén Moreno-Opo, Carlos Ponce, Óscar Frías, José L Tella, Anders P Møller, Jordi Figuerola, Péter L Pap, István Kovács, Csongor I Vágási, Leandro Meléndez, Guillermo Blanco, Eduardo Aguilera, Juan Carlos Senar, Ismael Galván, Francisco Atiénzar, Emilio Barba, José L Cantó, Verónica Cortés, Juan S Monrós, Rubén Piculo, Matthias Vögeli, Antoni Borràs, Carlos Navarro, Alexandre Mestre, Roger Jovani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4162594?pdf=render

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