Molecular phylogenetic and morphological analysis of haemosporidian parasites (Haemosporida) in a naturally infected European songbird, the blackcap Sylvia atricapilla, with description of Haemoproteus pallidulus sp. nov.

Parasitology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 217-227

  Krizanauskiene, Asta ^a   Pérez Tris, Javier ^b   Palinauskas, Vaidas ^a   Hellgren, Olof ^c   Bensch, Staffan ^d   Valkiunas, Gediminas ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Avian haemosporidians; Haemoproteus; Microscopy; Mitochondrial DNA; PCR; Phylogeography; Plasmodium; Sylvia atricapilla

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; GENOMIC DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COCCIDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHROME B GENE; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GAMETOCYTE; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMOPROTEUS MAJORIS; HAEMOPROTEUS PALLIDULUS; HAEMOPROTEUS PARABELOPOLSKYI; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM RELICTUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SONGBIRD; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE GENE;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CYTOCHROMES B; ERYTHROCYTES; EUROPE; HAEMOSPORIDA; MICROSCOPY; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

AVES; HAEMOPROTEUS; HAEMOPROTEUS MAJORIS; HAEMOSPORIDA; PARIDAE; PASSERI; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA;

EID: 77949654080     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182009991235     Document Type: Article

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