SURVEY OF BLOOD PARASITES IN ROSS' AND WHITE-FRONTED GEESE IN SOUTHERN TEXAS
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Blood parasites have been known to cause morbidity and mortality in waterfowl, particularly in Canada geese (Branta canadensis). However, little is known about blood parasites infecting Ross' geese (Chen rossii) and greater white-fronted geese (Anser albifrons). This study examined wintering Ross' and white-fronted geese for blood parasites. Blood smears from 16 Ross' geese (13 juveniles, 3 adults) and 46 white-fronted geese (21 juveniles, 25 adults) collected in Kleberg County, Texas, during winter 1999–2000 were examined for blood parasites. Leucocytozoon simondi was found in 2 juvenile white-fronted geese; density of infection was <1 parasite/2,000 erythrocytes. Additionally, 3 adult and 1 juvenile white-fronted geese had microfilaria. No blood parasites were observed in Ross' geese. We concluded that low prevalence and density of L. simondi gametocytes circulating in host blood precluded or greatly reduced transmission of this parasite on the wintering grounds in southern Texas.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".