A lack of hemosporidian parasites in some grassland songbirds reveals a research need in the Northern Great Plains
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We screened 103 Chestnut-collared Longspurs (Calcarius ornatus) and 69 Savannah Sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis) captured in Alberta, Canada, for infections from 3 genera of hemosporidian parasites (Haemoproteus, Plasmodium, and Leucocytozoon). We used electrophoresis to visualize bands of PCR product to code for the presence of infections and found no instances of parasitemia among the individuals we tested. To confirm that our method of blood storage and processing did not impede our ability to detect infections that were present, we screened 22 Swamp Sparrows (Melospiza georgiana) in Manitoba, Canada, using the same methods, and detected 5 infections. No previous studies have documented a lack of blood parasites in grassland songbirds, but it is possible that this is a result of publication bias against null results. As climate change shifts vector ranges, naïve populations of grassland songbirds may suffer disproportionately if vector presence or parasite transmissibility is altered.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".