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Endlicheria (Lauraceae).—André S. Chanderbali. 2004. New York Botanical Garden Press, New York. 141 pp. ISBN 0-89327-454-2. Flora Neotropica Monograph 91; Rhodostemonodaphne (Lauraceae).—Santiago Madriñán. 2004. New York Botanical Garden Press, New York. 102 pp. ISBN 0-89327-455-0. Flora Neotropica Monograph 92. These two monographs have been bound together into one volume. $52 (cloth).
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Endlicheria (Lauraceae).—André S. Chanderbali. 2004. New York Botanical Garden Press, New York. 141 pp. ISBN 0-89327-454-2. Flora Neotropica Monograph 91;
Rhodostemonodaphne (Lauraceae).—Santiago Madriñán. 2004. New York Botanical Garden Press, New York. 102 pp. ISBN 0-89327-455-0. Flora Neotropica Monograph 92. These two monographs have been bound together into one volume. $52 (cloth).
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The most famous members of the protozoan order Haemosporidia are the four Plasmodium species that cause human malaria. Malaria results in at least 1 million deaths per year and is considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be the world's most significant parasitic disease. It is therefore unsurprising that research into the other Plasmodium species, of which there are a great many, has mainly focussed on those few species which can be used in animal models for the human disease. Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of avian malaria research, where laboratory studies have centered on a single species, the chicken parasite Plasmodiumgallinaceum (one of the first models for human malaria), despite the existence of more than a hundred other species of avian Plasmodium. Consequently, although avian malaria is a very common disease of domestic and wild bird populations worldwide, we know relatively little