Avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites can negatively impact fitness in many *** on the malaria infection and its physiological costs on their avian hosts is heavily skewed toward native passerines,with ex...
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Avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites can negatively impact fitness in many *** on the malaria infection and its physiological costs on their avian hosts is heavily skewed toward native passerines,with exotic species ***,introduced species may carry on and spread new pathogens to native species,and play a role on parasite transmission cycle in invaded bird communities as pathogen ***,we molecularly assess the prevalence and diversity of haemosporidian parasites in three introduced wetland passerines(the Red Avadavat Amandava amandava,the Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer,and the Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild)captured during the same season in southwestern *** also explored the relation between parasite infection,body condition,haematocrit,and uropygial gland *** detected an overall parasite prevalence of 3.55%,where Common Waxbills showed higher prevalence(6.94%)than Red Avadavats(1.51%).None Yellow-crowned Bishops were infected with *** 60%of infections were caused by Leucocytozoon,and about 40%by *** identified four unique lineages of Plasmodium and three of ***,91%of the identified host-parasite interactions represented new host records for these haemosporidian *** infection was not related to body condition,haematocrit,and uropygial gland volume of the wetland *** values varied seasonally among bird ***,haematocrit was positively related to body condition in the Yellow-crowned Bishops,but not in the other *** Avadavats had higher haematocrit levels than Yellow-crowned Bishops,whereas Common Waxbills showed the lower haematocrit *** uropygial gland volume was positively correlated with body condition in all bird *** Waxbills showed higher uropygial gland volumes related to their body size than birds from other two *** outcomes highlight the importance of e
Characterizing the diversity and structure of host–parasite communities is crucial to understandingtheir eco-evolutionary *** and related haemosporidian parasites are responsible forfitness loss and mortality in bird...
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Characterizing the diversity and structure of host–parasite communities is crucial to understandingtheir eco-evolutionary *** and related haemosporidian parasites are responsible forfitness loss and mortality in bird species ***,despite exhibiting the greatest ornithologicalbiodiversity,avian haemosporidians from Neotropical regions are quite ***,we analyze the genetic diversity of bird haemosporidian parasites(Plasmodium andHaemoproteus)in 1,336 individuals belonging to 206 bird species to explore for differences in diversityof parasite lineages and bird species across 5 well-differentiated Peruvian *** 70 different haemosporidian lineages infecting 74 bird *** showed that 25 out ofthe 70 haplotypes had not been previously ***,we also identified 81 new host–parasite interactions representing new host records for these haemosporidian *** outcomesrevealed that the effective diversity(as well as the richness,abundance,and Shannon–Weaver index)for both birds and parasite lineages was higher in Amazon basin ***,we also showed that ecoregions with greater diversity of bird species also had highparasite richness,hence suggesting that host community is crucial in explaining parasite *** parasites were found in ecoregions with lower bird diversity,implying that the abundanceand richness of hosts may shape the exploitation strategy followed by haemosporidian *** outcomes reveal that Neotropical region is a major reservoir of unidentified *** studies analyzing host distribution and specificity of these parasites inthe tropics will provide important knowledge about phylogenetic relationships,phylogeography,and patterns of evolution and distribution of haemosporidian parasites.
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