Habitats are rapidly changing across the planet and the consequences will have major and
long-lasting effects on wildlife and their parasites. Birds harbor many types of blood …

Avian malaria is the oldest experimental system for investigating the biology and
transmission of Plasmodium parasites. Recent molecular protocols for detecting and …

Many hypotheses attempt to explain parasite–host associations, but rarely are they
examined together in a single community. For hosts, key traits are the proportion of infected …

Vector and host communities, as well as habitat characteristics, may have important but
different impacts on the prevalence, richness and evenness of vector‐borne parasites. We …

Avian haemosporidians of the genera Plasmodium, Haemoproteus, and Leucocytozoon are
common blood parasites in wild birds all over the world. Despite their importance as …

Angiosperms, which inhabit diverse environments across all continents, exhibit significant
variation in genome sizes, making them an excellent model system for examining …

Identifying the mechanisms driving the distribution and diversity of parasitic organisms and
characterizing the structure of parasite assemblages are critical to understanding host …

Background Coalescent methods that use multi-locus sequence data are powerful tools for
identifying putatively reproductively isolated lineages, though this approach has rarely been …

Simple Summary Avian haemosporidians of the genera Plasmodium, Haemoproteus, and
Leucocytozoon are vector-borne blood parasites, which commonly infect birds all over the …

Background Microscopic research has shown that Plasmodium relictum is the most common
agent of avian malaria. Recent molecular studies confirmed this conclusion and identified …