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  1. Review of Genetic Information of Morphologically Described Haemoproteus Parasites Recorded in GenBank and MalAvi Databases
  2. Optimizing Lankesterella Detection in Avian Hosts: A Comparative Analysis of Microscopic and Molecular Techniques
  3. Do specialist haemoparasites induce tolerance in their hosts?
  4. The prevalence and immune response to coinfection by avian haemosporidians in wild Eurasian blackbirds Turdus merula
  5. A new blood parasite of the accentor birds: description, molecular characterization, phylogenetic relationships and distribution
  6. High prevalence of multi-drug resistant bacteria in faecal samples from UK passerine birds
  7. The role of cultivated versus wild seeds in the diet of European turtle doves (Streptopelia turtur) across European breeding and African wintering grounds
  8. Bird species with wider geographical ranges have higher blood parasite diversity but not prevalence across the African-Eurasian flyway
  9. Parasite exchange and hybridisation at a wild-feral-domestic interface
  10. Haemoproteus parasites and passerines: the effect of local generalists on inferences of host–parasite co-phylogeny in the British Isles
  11. Investigating the association between diet and infection with Trichomonas gallinae in the European turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur)
  12. Epidemiology of protozoan and helminthic parasites in wild passerine birds of Britain and Ireland
  13. Evidence for strain-specific virulence ofTrichomonas gallinaein African columbiformes
  14. Successful storage of Trichomonas gallinae on Whatman FTA cards following culture
  15. Assessing rates of parasite coinfection and spatiotemporal strain variation via metabarcoding: Insights for the conservation of European turtle doves Streptopelia turtur
  16. Fungal microbiomes are determined by host phylogeny and exhibit widespread associations with the bacterial microbiome
  17. The genome sequence of the European turtle dove, Streptopelia turtur Linnaeus 1758
  18. The genome sequence of the European robin, Erithacus rubecula Linnaeus 1758
  19. Effects of seed-rich habitat provision on territory density, home range and breeding performance of European Turtle Doves Streptopelia turtur
  20. High prevalence of the neonicotinoid clothianidin in liver and plasma samples collected from gamebirds during autumn sowing
  21. From seeds to plasma: Confirmed exposure of multiple farmland bird species to clothianidin during sowing of winter cereals
  22. Using long-term datasets to assess the impacts of dietary exposure to neonicotinoids on farmland bird populations in England
  23. Flying into the future: avian haemosporidians and the advancement of understanding host–parasite systems
  24. Molecular and morphological characterization of Hepatozoon spp. in Brazilian snakes
  25. The decline of the Turtle Dove: Dietary associations with body condition and competition with other columbids analysed using high-throughput sequencing
  26. New universal ITS2 primers for high-resolution herbivory analyses using DNA metabarcoding in both tropical and temperate zones
  27. High prevalence of Trichomonas gallinae in wild columbids across western and southern Europe
  28. High rates of infection by blood parasites during the nestling phase in UK Columbids with notes on ecological associations
  29. Dynamics of phenotypic change: wing length declines in a resident farmland passerine despite survival advantage of longer wings
  30. Can hedgerow management mitigate the impacts of predation on songbird nest survival?
  31. Genomic evidence of demographic fluctuations and lack of genetic structure across flyways in a long distance migrant, the European turtle dove
  32. Post-fledging habitat selection in a rapidly declining farmland bird, the European Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur
  33. Non-cultured faecal and gastrointestinal seed samples fail to detect Trichomonad infection in clinically and sub-clinically infected columbid birds
  34. Anthropogenically-Mediated Density Dependence in a Declining Farmland Bird
  35. Testing bespoke management of foraging habitat for European turtle doves Streptopelia turtur
  36. Mortality in European Turtle Doves
  37. Blood parasite infection over winter
  38. Trichomonas in British Columbidae
  39. Blood parasite infection during the non-breeding season
  40. Turtle Dove breeding habitat selection
  41. Altitude and bat activity
  42. Migratory Birds: Ecology and Conservation. A report on the BOU’s Annual Conference held at the University of Leicester, 5–7 April 2011
  43. Personality and Parasites
  44. Yellowhammer foraging ecology
  45. Impacts of nest predation risk
  46. Ageing and sexing the Yellowhammer
  47. Competition and parasitism in native and invasive Crayfish