Luísa Mendes

Disease‐limited distributions? Contrasts in the prevalence of avian malaria in shorebird species using marine and freshwater habitats

Luísa Mendes, Theunis Piersma, Miguel Lecoq et al. · Oikos · 2005 · 142 citations · Full text

Avian Malaria, Vector-borne Pathogen, Infectious Disease Ecology +11

Variation in the innate and acquired arms of the immune system among five shorebird species

Luísa Mendes, Theunis Piersma, Dennis Hasselquist et al. · Journal of Experimental Biology · 2006 · 78 citations · Full text

Allergy, Evolutionary Biology, Immunology +14

Avian malaria infections in western European mosquitoes

Rita Ventim, Jaime A. Ramos, Hugo Costa Osório et al. · Parasitology Research · 2012 · 73 citations

Epidemiology, Malaria, Entomology +7

Breeding plumage honestly signals likelihood of tapeworm infestation in females of a long-distance migrating shorebird, the bar-tailed godwit

Theunis Piersma, Luísa Mendes, Jasper Hennekens et al. · Zoology · 2001 · 70 citations · Full text

Biology, Breeding Behavior, Natural Sciences +6

Diversity of cloacal microbial community in migratory shorebirds that use the Tagus estuary as stopover habitat and their potential to harbor and disperse pathogenic microorganisms

Susana S. Santos, Sara Pardal, Diogo Neves Proença et al. · FEMS Microbiology Ecology · 2012 · 53 citations · Full text

Biology, Microbial Diversity, Stopover Habitat +12