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A survey of avian influenza in tree sparrows in China in 2011. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Tree sparrows (Passer montanus) are widely distributed in all seasons in many countries. In this study, a survey and relevant experiments on avian influenza (AI) in tree sparrows were conducted. The results suggested that the receptor for avian influenza
Yan Han +10 more
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Eurasian Tree Sparrows, risk for H5N1 virus spread and human contamination through Buddhist ritual: an experimental approach. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 BACKGROUND: The Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 virus has dramatically spread throughout Southeast Asia since its first detection in 1997. Merit Release Birds, such as the Eurasian Tree Sparrow, are believed to increase one's positive karma when ...
Ramona Alikiiteaga Gutiérrez +3 more
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Influence of Urbanization on Body Size, Condition, and Physiology in an Urban Exploiter: A Multi-Component Approach. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Consistent expanding urbanization dramatically transforms natural habitats and exposes organisms to novel environmental challenges, often leading to reduced species richness and diversity in cities.
Alizée Meillère +3 more
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Diet contributes to urban-induced alterations in gut microbiota : experimental evidence from a wild passerine [PDF]
, 2020 Urban sprawl increasingly affects the ecology of natural populations, including host-microbiota interactions, with observed differences in the gut microbiota between urban and rural hosts.
De Neve, Liesbeth +5 more
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Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences, 2023 Bird intake and damage to fruits of Phoenix dactylifera is a common problem in date palm cultivation regions. Though plant vegetative characteristics and fruit nutritional values influence frugivory behavior in passerines, there is little knowledge about
Hafsa Benras +3 more
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Current Biology, 2016 Shinichi Nakagawa and Joel Pick introduce what we can learn from house sparrows.
Shinichi, Nakagawa, Joel L, Pick
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Brazilian Journal of Poultry Science, 2006 Reservoir competence for the Newcastle Disease virus (NDV) was evaluated in sparrows (Passer domesticus, Linnaeus 1758) captured on a commercial poultry farm and a chicken hatchery in the State of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil.
JSA Silva +5 more
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Facultative Altitudinal Movements by Mountain White-Crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia Leucophrys Oriantha) in the Sierra Nevada [PDF]
, 2004 Mountain White-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha) winter in Mexico and often arrive in the vicinity of their breeding grounds in the Sierra Nevada well before nesting is possible.
Breuner, Creagh W. +3 more
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Environmental factors influence both abundance and genetic diversity in a widespread bird species. [PDF]
, 2013 Genetic diversity is one of the key evolutionary variables that correlate with population size, being of critical importance for population viability and the persistence of species. Genetic diversity can also have important ecological consequences within
Boettcher R. +8 more
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