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SUBMITTER: Ishtiaq F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1560061 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ishtiaq Farah F Beadell Jon S JS Baker Allan J AJ Rahmani Asad R AR Jhala Yadvendradev V YV Fleischer Robert C RC
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20060301 1586
The success of introduced species is frequently explained by their escape from natural enemies in the introduced region. We tested the enemy release hypothesis with respect to two well studied blood parasite genera (Plasmodium and Haemoproteus) in native and six introduced populations of the common myna Acridotheres tristis. Not all comparisons of introduced populations to the native population were consistent with expectations of the enemy release hypothesis. Native populations show greater ove ...[more]