Host life-history traits predict haemosporidian parasite prevalence in tanagers (Aves: Thraupidae).

ABSTRACT: Vector-borne parasites are important ecological drivers influencing life-history evolution in birds by increasing host mortality or susceptibility to new diseases. Therefore, understanding why vulnerability to infection varies within a host clade is a crucial task for conservation biology and for understanding macroecological life-history patterns. Here, we studied the relationship of avian life-history traits and climate on the prevalence of Plasmodium and Parahaemoproteus parasites. We sampled 3569 individual birds belonging to 53 species of the family Thraupidae. Individuals were captured from 2007 to 2018 at 92 locations. We created 2 phylogenetic generalized least-squares models with Plasmodium and Parahaemoproteus prevalence as our response variables, and

SUBMITTER: Aguiar de Souza Penha V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10090595 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature