Publications

avian hosts of west nile virus in arizona.	west nile virus (wnv) causes sporadic outbreaks of human encephalitis in phoenix, arizona. to identify amplifying hosts of wnv in the phoenix area, we blood-sampled resident birds and measured antibody prevalence following an outbreak in the east valley of metropolitan phoenix during summer, 2010. house sparrow (passer domesticus), house finch (haemorhous mexicanus), great-tailed grackle (quiscalus mexicanus), and mourning dove (zenaida macroura) accounted for most wnv infections among locally r ...	2013	23857022
pathophysiological responses to a schistosome infection in a wild population of mourning doves (zenaida macroura).	the blood trematode gigantobilharzia huronensis typically infects passerine birds and has not been reported in other orders of wild birds. however, in the summer of 2011 in tempe, arizona, usa, mourning doves (zenaida macroura; order: columbiformes) were collected with infections of g. huronensis. this is the first report of a natural schistosome infection found in wild populations of doves. we sought to determine if g. huronensis infections alter the general body condition and physiology of dov ...	2015	26265584