Avian malaria, caused by Plasmodium spp., has been reported as a cause of morbidity and
mortality in New Zealand bird populations. The prevalence of Plasmodium lineages in the …

Understanding the origin of invasive parasites and ecological transmission barriers on the
distribution of mosquito-borne pathogens is enriched by molecular phylogenetic approaches …

Haemosporidians are vector-transmitted intracellular parasites that occur in many bird
species worldwide and may have important implications for wild bird populations. Surveys of …

Projections related to future climate warming indicate the potential for an increase in the
distribution and prevalence of blood parasites in northern regions. However, baseline data …

Many recent studies addressed morphological and molecular characterization, distribution,
genetic diversity and evolutionary relationships of avian haemosporidian parasites …

Amongst other factors, host behaviour critically determines the patterns with which blood
parasites occur in wild host populations. In particular, migratory hosts that sequentially …

The diversity of avian malaria parasites is much greater than 20th century morphologists
realized and virtually every study in this field in the last 15 years has uncovered previously …

Haemosporidian parasites are protozoans that infect many different vertebrate hosts. Re-
examination of the diversity of haemosporidian parasites, using molecular tools, has …

Host and pathogen ecology are often closely linked, with evolutionary processes often
leading to the development of host specificity traits in some pathogens. Host specificity may …

Abstract Haemoproteus species (Haemosporida, Haemoproteidae) are cosmopolitan and
highly diverse blood parasites of birds that have been neglected in avian medicine …