Abstract:This book is a review on the plasmodia and other haemosporidia of birds from Venezuela, written by one of the most important malariologist of the New World, Prof. Arnoldo Gabaldon, who devoted himself over almost 60 years to the study of these parasites. He considered the bird plasmodia as splendid experimental models for the instruction of parasitologists as well as for research on the host-parasite relationship in malaria. Indeed, recent phylogenetic studies based on phenotypic and genotypic characters of sp… Show more
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