The image shows at the top left, the map with the 26 localities spanning the wide range of environmental conditions across Iberian Spain. At the bottom left, a photo of a juvenile Eurasian blackcap together with a rectangle showing the codes that indicate the progress of the post-juvenile moult (from 1 to 6) and the summary of the main results (lower moult scores indicative of delayed moult in birds with Plasmodium, Haemoproteus and high-Haemoproteus parasite load). At the top right there is the Figure 2 of the paper with the mean posterior probability and 95% Bayesian credible intervals (BCI) of each stage of PJM (represented with different colours) in juvenile blackcaps that were either uninfected, single-infected or co-infected by any haemosporidian lineage. And finally, at the bottom right there is the figure 3 of the paper with the relationship between the Haemoproteus intensity and the posterior probability of each post-juvenile moult score.
NEW PAPER doi.org/10.1098/rspb... !
In nature time is precious. We discovered that young of a small passerine bird, the Eurasian blackcaps, infected by haemosporidians, commonly known as avian malaria parasites, were delayed in the moult that confers these birds an adult plumage.
