A PCR-Based Retrospective Study for Beak and Feather Disease Virus (BFDV) in Five Wild Populations of Parrots from Australia, Argentina and New Zealand
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:1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
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Species | Estimation of Population Size | Reference for Population Size | Year of Sample Collection | Blood Samples (n) | Total | |
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Adult | Nestling | |||||
Psittaculini | ||||||
Eclectus roratus | 3000 | [51] | 1997–2007 | 24 | 291 | 315 |
Platycercini | ||||||
Platycercuselegans | 550 | [52] | 1993–1995 | 17 | 52 | 69 |
Cyanoramphus forbesi | 1000 | [53] | 2014 | 95 | − | 95 |
Arini | ||||||
Cyanoliseus patagonus | 75,000 | [54] | December 1998, December 1999 | 49t | 55 | 104 |
Myopsitta monachus | 500 | [55] and E.H.B. unpubl. data | December 2000 | 29 | − | 29 |
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Ortiz-Catedral, L.; Wallace, C.J.; Heinsohn, R.; Krebs, E.A.; Langmore, N.E.; Vukelic, D.; Bucher, E.H.; Varsani, A.; Masello, J.F. A PCR-Based Retrospective Study for Beak and Feather Disease Virus (BFDV) in Five Wild Populations of Parrots from Australia, Argentina and New Zealand. Diversity 2022, 14, 148. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14020148
Ortiz-Catedral L, Wallace CJ, Heinsohn R, Krebs EA, Langmore NE, Vukelic D, Bucher EH, Varsani A, Masello JF. A PCR-Based Retrospective Study for Beak and Feather Disease Virus (BFDV) in Five Wild Populations of Parrots from Australia, Argentina and New Zealand. Diversity. 2022; 14(2):148. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14020148
Chicago/Turabian StyleOrtiz-Catedral, Luis, Connor J. Wallace, Robert Heinsohn, Elizabeth A. Krebs, Naomi E. Langmore, Dusan Vukelic, Enrique H. Bucher, Arvind Varsani, and Juan F. Masello. 2022. "A PCR-Based Retrospective Study for Beak and Feather Disease Virus (BFDV) in Five Wild Populations of Parrots from Australia, Argentina and New Zealand" Diversity 14, no. 2: 148. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14020148
APA StyleOrtiz-Catedral, L., Wallace, C. J., Heinsohn, R., Krebs, E. A., Langmore, N. E., Vukelic, D., Bucher, E. H., Varsani, A., & Masello, J. F. (2022). A PCR-Based Retrospective Study for Beak and Feather Disease Virus (BFDV) in Five Wild Populations of Parrots from Australia, Argentina and New Zealand. Diversity, 14(2), 148. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14020148