Generalist haemosporidian parasites are better adapted to a subset of host species in a multiple host community

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Parasite specialization in a unique habitat: hummingbirds as reservoirs of generalist blood parasites of Andean birds

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Mortality and pathology in birds due to Plasmodium (Giovannolaia) homocircumflexum infection, with emphasis on the exoerythrocytic development of avian malaria parasites

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The evolution of highly variable immunity genes across a passerine bird radiation

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The Strategy to Survive Primary Malaria Infection: An Experimental Study on Behavioural Changes in Parasitized Birds

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Are All Hosts Created Equal? Partitioning Host Species Contributions to Parasite Persistence in Multihost Communities

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Genetic diversity, temporal dynamics, and host specificity in blood parasites of passerines in north China

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Local host specialization, host-switching, and dispersal shape the regional distributions of avian haemosporidian parasites

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Finding Them Before They Find Us: Informatics, Parasites, and Environments in Accelerating Climate Change

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Specialized avian Haemosporida trade reduced host breadth for increased prevalence

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Does the niche breadth or trade-off hypothesis explain the abundance-occupancy relationship in avian Haemosporidia?

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Species formation by host shifting in avian malaria parasites

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Malaria infections reinforce competitive asymmetry between twoFicedulaflycatchers in a recent contact zone

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Cospeciation vs host-shift speciation: methods for testing, evidence from natural associations and relation to coevolution

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THE ORIGIN OF SPECIFICITY BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION: EVOLVED AND NONHOST RESISTANCE IN HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS

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Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

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Are chronic avian haemosporidian infections costly in wild birds?

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How specialists can be generalists: resolving the "parasite paradox" and implications for emerging infectious disease

(2011) Salvatore J. Agosta et al.   Zoologia

Population genetic structure and history of a generalist parasite infecting multiple sympatric host species☆

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A jack-of-all-trades and still a master of some: prevalence and host range in avian malaria and related blood parasites

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MalAvi: a public database of malaria parasites and related haemosporidians in avian hosts based on mitochondrial cytochromeblineages

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Phylogeny and geography predict pathogen community similarity in wild primates and humans

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Resource Partitioning and Sympatric Differentiation Among Closely Related Bacterioplankton

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