| proliferative visceral isospora (atoxoplasmosis) with morbid impact on the israeli sparrow passer domesticus biblicus hartert, 1904. | house sparrows (passer domesticus biblicus hartert, 1904) caught in the jordan valley, the coastal plain, and the desert region in southern israel were found massively infected with extraintestinal proliferative stages of isospora, previously named atoxoplasma. infection coincided with isospora spp. infections in the digestive tract. prevalence of infection reached 70% among sparrows of all three regions; however, only in the jordan valley did the severity of the sparrows compromised their survi ... | 2008 | 18491138 |
| physiological responses to food deprivation in the house sparrow, a species not adapted to prolonged fasting. | many wild birds fast during reproduction, molting, migration, or because of limited food availability. species that are adapted to fasting sequentially oxidize endogenous fuels in three discrete phases. we hypothesized that species not adapted to long fasts have truncated, but otherwise similar, phases of fasting, sequential changes in fuel oxidization, and similar changes in blood metabolites to fasting-adapted species. we tested salient predictions in house sparrows (passer domesticus biblicus ... | 2012 | 22785424 |
| leucocytozoonosis in the israeli sparrow, passer domesticus biblicus hartert 1904. | among the 91 house sparrows (passer domesticus biblicus hartert, 1904) examined and caught in the jordan valley, israel, 79% were found to be infected with leucocytozoon fringillinarum woodcock 1910. in the coastal plain of israel (south of tel aviv), leucocytozoon infection was found in only 3 out of 43 examined sparrows. in the birds examined, leucocytozoon gametocytes were present, often in large numbers, in the circulating blood of the visceral organs, whereas they were only sporadic or even ... | 2005 | 15940526 |
| schizogonic stages of haemoproteus from wenyon's baghdad sparrows are also found in passer domesticus biblicus in israel. | schizont bodies reminiscent of those described by wenyon from baghdad sparrows were found in the liver and lungs of an israeli house sparrow ( passer domesticus biblicushartert 1904) infected with haemoproteus passeris kruse, 1890. all observed schizonts were composed of packed assemblages of walled compartments, each holding a differentiating schizogonic body. the schizogonic bodies in the various compartments demonstrated sequential stages in the differentiation process from a compact multinuc ... | 2003 | 14530965 |