01893ojm 2200325z- 450 991014905430332120230912161814.00-00-821835-8(CKB)3710000000924208(BIP)056210918(EXLCZ)99371000000092420820231107c2016uuuu -u- -engBlindman's Bluff (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Crime Thrillers)HarperCollins UKThe eighteenth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman Guy Kaffey thought his wealth could acquire anything- including the best security money can buy. When his family are gunned to death on their vast Butterfly Ranch estate, it's clear that he was tragically wrong. Lieutenant Peter Decker of the LAPD is given the task of piecing together what happened. From the start, he suspects an inside job and that the answer lies with Kaffey's fortune. The daunting scale of Kaffey's business empire produces no shortage of suspects: from members of his bodyguard, to business partners, rival tycoons, even family members. But as LA's ferocious street gangs hire themselves out to unknown paymasters in a cycle of revenge and death, Decker's own family is threatened. And if a billionaire like Kaffey can't protect his own, what hope does Decker have?Blindman's Bluff Decker, peter (fictitious character)Lazarus, rina (fictitious character)CrimeLos angeles (calif.)FictionLiterature and fiction813.54Kellerman Faye1952-1435163Greenberg MitchellothAUDIO9910149054303321Blindman's Bluff (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Crime Thrillers)3654344UNINA03309oam 2200325z- 450 991024995890332120140313082403.0(CKB)3830000000006630(EXLCZ)99383000000000663020180603c2013uuuu -u- -engDiversity, prevalence, and host specificity of avian Plasmodium and Haemoproteus in a Western Amazon assemblage /Maria Svensson-Coelho, John G. Blake, Bette A. Loiselle, Amanda S. Penrose, Patricia G. Parker, and Robert E. RicklefsThe American Ornithologists' Union0-943610-95-8 We used PCR and DNA sequencing to screen for haemosporidian parasites (Haemoproteus and Plasmodium) in 2,488 individual birds from 104 species and 22 families, primarily understory suboscine passerines, captured in a lowland Amazonian forest in Ecuador as a first major step to understanding the transmission dynamics of this cosmopolitan group of parasites in this region. To assess diversity of avian haemosporidia in our study site, we identified putative evolutionary lineages of haemosporidia using the mtDNA gene cytochrome b (cyt b). We sampled birds over 9 years, which allowed us to assess annual variation in haemosporidian prevalence. Additionally, we investigated among-species variation in prevalence and tested relationships between traits of hosts and prevalence of haemosporidia in a comparative analysis. Finally, we estimated host specificity of each recovered parasite lineage and compared several indices with different details of host information. Prevalence of haemosporidia was 21.7% when we combined years and ranged from 5.6% to 91.2% among well-sampled host species. Prevalence varied significantly among years, ranging from 14.5% in 2006 to 33.2% in 2009. The hypothesis that haemosporidian prevalence increases with level of sexual dimorphism and decreases with foraging height of a host species received some support. We identified 65 unique cyt b haplotypes, some of which we considered variation within the same evolutionary lineage. In total, we defined 45 putative evolutionary lineages based on 363 identified parasites. Fourteen haplotypes were identical to haplotypes found elsewhere, sometimes on different continents. Host specificity varied greatly among parasite lineages. Collectively, our findings indicate that within a local Neotropical assemblage of avian haemosporidia, community organization is highly complex and part of this complexity can be attributed to differences in host life history; diversity, particularly of Plasmodium spp., is high; and individual parasite lineages can differ greatly in both abundance and number of host species.PasseriformesParasitesEcuadorHost-parasite relationshipsPasseriformesParasitesHost-parasite relationships.598.8Svensson-Coelho Maria1243782Blake John GLoiselle Bette APenrose Amanda SParker Patricia GRicklefs Robert EBOOK9910249958903321Diversity, prevalence, and host specificity of avian Plasmodium and Haemoproteus in a Western Amazon assemblage2885044UNINA