Family Anatidae (organism)

Enterocytozoon bieneusi is a common opportunistic pathogen causing diarrhea in humans and animals. However, epidemiological data… (More)

Populations of migratory species have undergone dramatic changes in recent decades, but little is known about the factors… (More)

The highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus still cause devastating effects to humans, agricultural poultry flocks, and wild… (More)

Since the spread of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in 2005, many surveillance programmes have been initiated in… (More)

Myxozoans are spore-forming, metazoan parasites common in cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates, especially fishes, with alternate… (More)

When waterfowl (Anatidae) ingest sediment as they feed, they are exposed to the environmental contaminants in those sediments… (More)

Olson, Storrs L., and Alan Feduccia. Presbyornis and the Origin of the Anseriformes (Aves: Charadriomorphae). Smithsonian… (More)

From 1947 to 1992, successive pathologists at The Game Conservancy Trust carried out 1,318 post-mortems on adult wild grey… (More)

Genetic markers that differ in mode of inheritance and rate of evolution (a sex-linked Z-specific microsatellite locus, five… (More)

Flightlessness in Tachyeres is caused by wing-loadings in excess of 2.5 g·cm-2 , which result from the large body size and small… (More)