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Hidden costs of infection: Chronic malaria accelerates telomere degradation and senescence in wild birds by Asghar, M., Hasselquist, D., Hansson, B., Zehtindjiev, P., Westerdahl, H., Bensch, S.

“…Recovery from infection is not always complete, and mild chronic infection may persist. Although the direct costs of such infections are apparently small, the…”
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Urban environment shortens telomere length in nestling great tits, Parus major by Salmón, P., Nilsson, J. F., Nord, A., Bensch, S., Isaksson, C.

“…Urban environments are expanding rapidly, and with urbanization come both challenges and opportunities for wildlife. Challenges include combating the…”
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Effects of malaria double infection in birds: one plus one is not two by MARZAL, A, BENSCH, S, REVIRIEGO, M, BALBONTIN, J, DE LOPE, F

“…Avian malaria parasites are supposed to exert negative effects on host fitness because these intracellular parasites affect host metabolism. Recent advances in…”
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Host preferences of ornithophilic biting midges of the genus Culicoides in the Eastern Balkans by BOBEVA, A., ZEHTINDJIEV, P., ILIEVA, M., DIMITROV, D., MATHIS, A., BENSCH, S.

“…Many biting midges of the genus Culicoides Latreille, 1809 (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) are competent vectors of a diverse number of pathogens. The…”
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A New Nested Polymerase Chain Reaction Method Very Efficient in Detecting Plasmodium and Haemoproteus Infections From Avian Blood by Waldenström, J, Bensch, S, Hasselquist, D, Östman, Ö

“…Recently, several polymerase chain reaction (PCR)–based methods for detection and genetic identification of haemosporidian parasites in avian blood have been…”
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Multiple cryptic species of sympatric generalists within the avian blood parasite Haemoproteus majoris by Nilsson, E., Taubert, H., Hellgren, O., Huang, X., Palinauskas, V., Markovets, M. Y., Valkiūnas, G., Bensch, S.

“…The avian haemosporidian parasite Haemoproteus majoris has been reported to infect a wide range of passerine birds throughout the Holarctic ecozone. Five…”
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Bird hosts, blood parasites and their vectors -- associations uncovered by molecular analyses of blackfly blood meals by HELLGREN, O, BENSCH, S, MALMQVIST, B

“…The level of host specificity of blood-sucking invertebrates may have both ecological and evolutionary implications for the parasites they are transmitting. We…”
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Diagnosing genetically diverse avian malarial infections using mixed-sequence analysis and TA-cloning by Pérez-Tris, J, Bensch, S

“…Birds harbouring several malarial parasites are common in the wild, and resolving such multiple infections is important for our understanding of host-parasite…”
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Cross-species infection of blood parasites between resident and migratory songbirds in Africa by Waldenström, J., Bensch, S., Kiboi, S., Hasselquist, D., Ottosson, U.

“…We studied the phylogeny of avian haemosporidian parasites, Haemoproteus and Plasmodium, in a number of African resident and European migratory songbird…”
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Evidence of a neo-sex chromosome in birds by Pala, I, Naurin, S, Stervander, M, Hasselquist, D, Bensch, S, Hansson, B

“…Neo-sex chromosomes often originate from sex chromosome-autosome fusions and constitute an important basis for the study of gene degeneration and expression in…”
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Circannual variation in blood parasitism in a sub‐Saharan migrant passerine bird, the garden warbler by Hellgren, O., Wood, M. J., Waldenström, J., Hasselquist, D., Ottosson, U., Stervander, M., Bensch, S.

“…Knowing the natural dynamics of pathogens in migratory birds is important, for example, to understand the factors that influence the transport of pathogens to…”
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Broad-scale latitudinal patterns of genetic diversity among native European and introduced house sparrow (Passer domesticus) populations by SCHREY, A. W., GRISPO, M., AWAD, M., COOK, M. B., McCOY, E. D., MUSHINSKY, H. R., ALBAYRAK, T., BENSCH, S., BURKE, T., BUTLER, L. K., DOR, R., FOKIDIS, H. B., JENSEN, H., IMBOMA, T., KESSLER-RIOS, M. M., MARZAL, A., STEWART, I. R. K., WESTERDAHL, H., WESTNEAT, D. F., ZEHTINDJIEV, P., MARTIN, L. B.

“…Introduced species offer unique opportunities to study evolution in new environments, and some provide opportunities for understanding the mechanisms…”
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Molecular identification of bloodmeals and species composition in Culicoides biting midges by PETTERSSON, E, BENSCH, S, ANDER, M, CHIRICO, J, SIGVALD, R, IGNELL, R

“…Investigations of host preferences in haematophagous insects, including Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), are critical in order to assess…”
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Transcontinental migratory connectivity predicts parasite prevalence in breeding populations of the European barn swallow by Rönn, J. A. C, Harrod, C, Bensch, S, Wolf, J. B. W

“…Parasites exert a major impact on the eco‐evolutionary dynamics of their hosts and the associated biotic environment. Migration constitutes an effective means…”
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Host specificity in avian blood parasites: a study of Plasmodium and Haemoproteus mitochondrial DNA amplified from birds by Bensch, Stffan, Stjernman, Martin, Hasselquist, Dennis, Örjan, Östman, Hannson, Bengt, Westerdahl, Helena, Pinheiro, Renato Torres

“…or…”
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Haemosporidian Blood Parasites in European Birds of Prey and Owls by Krone, O, Waldenström, J, Valkiūnas, G, Lessow, O, Müller, K, Iezhova, T. A, Fickel, J, Bensch, S

“…Avian blood parasites have been intensively studied using morphological methods with limited information on their host specificity and species taxonomic…”
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Parallelism and historical contingency during rapid ecotype divergence in an isopod by EROUKHMANOFF, F, HARGEBY, A, ARNBERG, N.N, HELLGREN, O, Bensch, S, SVENSSON, E.I

“…Recent studies on parallel evolution have focused on the relative role of selection and historical contingency during adaptive divergence. Here, we study…”
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Haemosporidian Blood Parasites in European Birds of Prey and Owls by Krone, O., Waldenström, J., Valkiūnas, G., Lessow, O., Müller, K., Iezhova, T. A., Fickel, J., Bensch, S.

“…Avian blood parasites have been intensively studied using morphological methods with limited information on their host specificity and species taxonomic…”
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Between‐year variation of MHC allele frequencies in great reed warblers: selection or drift? by Westerdahl, H., Hansson, B., Bensch, S., Hasselquist, D.

“…The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes are extremely polymorphic and this variation is assumed to be maintained by balancing selection. Cyclic…”
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Patterns of differentiation in a colour polymorphism and in neutral markers reveal rapid genetic changes in natural damselfly populations by ABBOTT, J. K., BENSCH, S., GOSDEN, T. P., SVENSSON, E. I.

“…The existence and mode of selection operating on heritable adaptive traits can be inferred by comparing population differentiation in neutral genetic variation…”
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