Nonspecific patterns of vector, host and avian malaria parasite associations in a central African rainforest

KY Njabo, AJ Cornel, C Bonneaud… - Molecular …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Malaria parasites use vertebrate hosts for asexual multiplication and Culicidae mosquitoes
for sexual and asexual development, yet the literature on avian malaria remains biased …

Diversity and distribution of avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites in captive birds from a Brazilian megalopolis

CRF Chagas, G Valkiūnas, L de Oliveira Guimarães… - Malaria journal, 2017 - Springer
Background The role of zoos in conservation programmes has increased significantly in last
decades, and the health of captive animals is essential to guarantee success of such …

Diversity, Prevalence, and Host Specificity of Avian Plasmodium and Haemoproteus in a Western Amazon Assemblage

M Svensson-Coelho, JG Blake, BA Loiselle… - Ornithological …, 2013 - JSTOR
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 …

Host and habitat specialization of avian malaria in Africa

C Loiseau, RJ Harrigan, A Robert… - Molecular …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Studies of both vertebrates and invertebrates have suggested that specialists, as compared
to generalists, are likely to suffer more serious declines in response to environmental …

Host community similarity and geography shape the diversity and distribution of haemosporidian parasites in Amazonian birds

A Fecchio, R Pinheiro, G Felix, IP Faria, JB Pinho… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying the mechanisms driving the distribution and diversity of parasitic organisms and
characterizing the structure of parasite assemblages are critical to understanding host …

Deeply conserved susceptibility in a multi‐host, multi‐parasite system

LN Barrow, SM McNew, N Mitchell, SC Galen… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Variation in susceptibility is ubiquitous in multi‐host, multi‐parasite assemblages, and can
have profound implications for ecology and evolution in these systems. The extent to which …

Description of the first cryptic avian malaria parasite, Plasmodium homocircumflexum n. sp., with experimental data on its virulence and development in avian hosts …

V Palinauskas, R Žiegytė, M Ilgūnas, TA Iezhova… - International Journal for …, 2015 - Elsevier
For over 100 years studies on avian haemosporidian parasite species have relied on
similarities in their morphology to establish a species concept. Some exceptional cases …

Avian Plasmodium in Culex and Ochlerotatus Mosquitoes from Southern Spain: Effects of Season and Host-Feeding Source on Parasite Dynamics

M Ferraguti, J Martinez-de la Puente, J Munoz, D Roiz… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Haemosporidians, a group of vector-borne parasites that include Plasmodium, infect
vertebrates including birds. Although mosquitoes are crucial elements in the transmission of …

Malaria parasites (Plasmodium spp.) infecting introduced, native and endemic New Zealand birds

L Howe, IC Castro, ER Schoener, S Hunter… - Parasitology …, 2012 - Springer
Avian malaria is caused by intracellular mosquito-transmitted protist parasites in the order
Haemosporida, genus Plasmodium. Although Plasmodium species have been diagnosed …

Diverse avian malaria and other haemosporidian parasites in Andean house wrens: evidence for regional co‐diversification by host‐switching

SC Galen, CC Witt - Journal of Avian Biology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research has revealed well over 1000 mtDNA lineages of avian haemosporidian
parasites, but the extent to which this diversity is caused by host–parasite coevolutionary …