| strongyloides avium cram, 1929 (strongyloididae: nematoda) from rallus aquaticus indicus blyth. | | 1968 | 5304170 |
| aerobic cloacal and pharyngeal bacterial flora in six species of free-living birds. | the purpose of this study was to investigate the culturable aerobic pharyngeal and cloacal bacterial flora of free-living birds, to determine the physiological bacterial microbiota, to identify possible interactions between feeding behaviour and the composition of the pharyngeal and cloacal microflora and to investigate the occurrence of pathogenic bacteria. | 2014 | 25176477 |
| heavy metals in some species of waterfowl of northern italy. | concentrations of heavy metals (zinc, copper, cadmium, and iron) were measured in several tissues (brain, gizzard, leg-muscle, heart, breast-muscle, intestine, liver and kidney) of moorhens (gallinula chloropus), black-headed gulls (larus ridibundus), and coots (fulica atra) collected between autumn 1985 and spring 1989 in northern italy. cadmium concentrations in the liver and kidney of water-rails (rallus aquaticus) and in five species of anatidae collected also were measured. high mean (+/- s ... | 1995 | 7563424 |
| flightlessness and phylogeny amongst endemic rails (aves:rallidae) of the new zealand region. | the phylogenetic relationships of a number of flightless and volant rails have been investigated using mtdna sequence data. the third domain of the small ribosomal subunit (12s) has been sequenced for 22 taxa, and part of the 5' end of the cytochrome-b gene has been sequenced for 12 taxa. additional sequences were obtained from outgroup taxa, two species of jacana, sarus crane, spur-winged plover and kagu. extinct rails were investigated using dna extracted from subfossil bones, and in cases whe ... | 1997 | 9163823 |
| syringophilid mites (acari: syringophilidae) associated with the rails (aves: rallidae) and a key to the species of the genus rafapicobia skoracki, 2011. | the fauna of quill mites of the family syringophilidae lavoipierre, 1953 (acari: prostigmata cheyletoidea) parasitising birds of the family rallidae vigors (gruiformes) is updated. a new species, rafapicobia melzeri n. sp. (subfamily picobiinae), is described from four host species: rallus aquaticus linnaeus (type-host) from germany, pardirallus sanguinolentus (swainson) from chile, porzana porzana (linnaeus) from france and p. parva (scopoli) from kirghizia. the new species is most similar to r ... | 2014 | 24935125 |
| five new extinct species of rails (aves: gruiformes: rallidae) from the macaronesian islands (north atlantic ocean). | five new species of recently extinct rails from two macaronesian archipelagoes (madeira and azores) are described. all the species are smaller in size than their presumed ancestor, the european rail rallus aquaticus. two species inhabited the madeira archipelago: (1) rallus lowei n. sp., the stouter of the species described herein, was a flightless rail with a robust tarsometatarsus and reduced wings that lived on madeira island; (2) rallus adolfocaesaris n. sp., a flightless and more gracile sp ... | 2015 | 26701473 |
| the adaptive value of habitat preferences from a multi-scale spatial perspective: insights from marsh-nesting avian species. | habitat selection and its adaptive outcomes are crucial features for animal life-history strategies. nevertheless, congruence between habitat preferences and breeding success has been rarely demonstrated, which may result from the single-scale evaluation of animal choices. as habitat selection is a complex multi-scale process in many groups of animal species, investigating adaptiveness of habitat selection in a multi-scale framework is crucial. in this study, we explore whether habitat preferenc ... | 2017 | 28367380 |
| phylogenetic and coalescent analysis of three loci suggest that the water rail is divisible into two species, rallus aquaticus and r. indicus. | water rails (rallus aquaticus) inhabit fragmented freshwater wetlands across their palearctic distribution. disjunct populations are now thought to be morphologically similar over their vast geographic range, though four subspecies had been recognized previously. the fossil record suggests that water rails (r. aquaticus) were already spread across the palearctic by the pleistocene approximately 2 million years ago, and the oldest fossil remains thought to be closely related to the common ancesto ... | 2010 | 20653954 |
| comparative infectivity and transmissibility studies of wild-bird and chicken-origin highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses h5n8 in chickens. | despite the recent advances in avian influenza viruses surveillance and genomic data, fundamental questions concerning the ecology and evolution of these viruses remain elusive. in egypt, h5n8 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (hpaivs) are co-circulating simultaneously with hpaivs of subtypes h5n1 and low-pathogenic avian influenza viruses (lpaivs) of subtype h9n2 in both commercial and backyard poultry. in order to isolate aivs from wild birds and to assess their potential in causing in ... | 2020 | 33271478 |