THE EVOLUTION OF DISEASE
CONTENTS CHAPTER SEX DETERMINATION IN BIRDS CHAPTER STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE AVIAN RESPIRATORY SYSTEM, WITH OBSERVATION ON ITS PREDISPOSITION TO INJURY BY PARTICULATES AND PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISMS DISTRIBUTION AND DISPERSION OF COCCIDIA IN WILD PASSERINES OF THE AMERICAS AN ANIMAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE DOMINANT URBAN AVIAN SCAVENGER IN CONTRASTING CASE STUDIES RECENT INFECTIOUS DISEASES OR THEIR RESPONSIBLE AGENTS RECORDED FROM JAPANESE WILD BIRDS TICKS ON BRAZILIAN BIRDS: OVERVIEW AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT PARASITIC DISEASES DUE TO HELMINTHS AND ARTHROPODS RECORDED FROM WILD BIRDS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CONSERVATION MEDICAL CASES FROM THE WILD ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER OF RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY IN JAPAN ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS THAT AFFECT URBAN AVIAN COMMUNITIES THE IMPACT OF LANDSCAPE CONFIGURATION AND COMPETITORS ON THE HOODED VULTURE NECROSYRTES MONARCHUS TEMMINCK 1823 IN SOUTHERN GHANA