| prevalence of blood parasites in japanese wild birds. | the prevalence of blood parasites was investigated in 701 japanese wild birds for 13 years from january, 1988 to march, 2001. most of the injured or sick birds were caught in the suburbs of kobe city, hyogo prefecture and brought to the zoo for clinical care. among all the birds examined, 10.6% were infected with hematozoa belonging to three genera as plasmodium (1.7% of the samples), haemoproteus (5.1% of the samples) and leucocytozoon (4.6% of the samples), and two birds (0.29% of the samples) ... | 2002 | 12399602 |
| plasmodium circumflexum in a shikra (accipiter badius): phylogeny and ultra-structure of the haematozoa. | a wild-caught, juvenile shikra (accipiter badius) was evaluated for rehabilitation at the kasetsart university raptor rehabilitation unit (kurru) with a history of weakness. plasmodium sp. was observed by both light and electron microscopy in blood obtained on day 1 of evaluation. based on the appearance of erythrocytic meronts and gametocytes, the parasites were defined as plasmodium (giovannolaia) circumflexum. the sequence analysis of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene from the plasmodia was ... | 2012 | 23094585 |
| biological monitoring of heavy metal contaminations using owls. | iron, manganese, copper, lead and cadmium were measured in the livers, muscles, kidneys and bones of eurasian eagle owls (bubo bubo), brown hawk owls (nixos scutulata) and collared scops owls (otus lempiji) from korea. iron concentrations by tissue within species did not differ, but there were significant differences among tissues across all species. manganese and copper concentrations in muscles, kidneys and bones, but not livers, differed among species and also differed among tissues in the th ... | 2012 | 22344174 |
| heavy-metal concentrations in three owl species from korea. | this study presents concentrations of heavy metals (iron, zinc, manganese, copper, lead, and cadmium) in livers of three owl species from korea. essential trace elements (iron, zinc, manganese, and copper) did not differ among the owl species. we suggest that the essential elements are within the normal range and are maintained by normal homeostatic mechanisms. lead and cadmium concentrations in eurasian eagle owls (bubo bubo) were significantly lower than in brown hawk owls (nixos scutulata) an ... | 2008 | 17955366 |