Ecology of malaria parasites infecting Southeast Asian macaques: Evidence from cytochrome b sequences

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 3466-3476

  Putaporntip, Chaturong ^a   Jongwutiwes, Somchai ^a   Thongaree, Siriporn ^b   Seethamchai, Sunee ^c   Grynberg, Priscila ^d   Hughes, Austin L ^e  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL PARKS   (Thailand)

^c NARESUAN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

ecological genetics; evolutionary medicine; host parasite interactions; parasitology; protists; species interactions

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MACACA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THAILAND;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENETICS, POPULATION; MACACA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THAILAND;

APICOMPLEXA; HAEMOSPORIDA; HEPATOCYSTIS; HEPATOCYSTIS SP.; MACACA; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA NEMESTRINA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM INUI; PRIMATES; PROTISTA;

EID: 77955379911     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04756.x     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Atamna-Ismaeel N, Sabehi G, Sharon I et al. (2008) Widespread distribution of proteorhodopsins in fresh and brackish ecosystems. ISME Journal, 2, 656 662.
2. Chasar A, Loiseau C, Valkiunas G, Iezhova T, Smith TB, Seghal RN (2009) Prevalence and diversity patterns of avian blood parasites in degraded African rainforest habitats. Molecular Ecology, 18, 4121 4133.
3. Cohen JE (1973) Heterologous immunity in human malaria. Quarterly Review of Biology, 48, 467 489.
4. De Roode JC, Culleton R, Cheesman SJ, Carter R, Read AF (2004) Host heterogeneity is a determinant of competitive exclusion or coexistence in genetically diverse malaria infections. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 271, 1073 1080.
5. De Roode JC, Pansini R, Cheesman SJ et al. (2005) Virulence and competitive ability in genetically diverse malaria infections. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102, 7624 7628.
6. Escalante A, Freeland DE, Collins WE, Lal AA (1998) The evolution of primate malaria parasites based on the gene encoding cytochrome b from the linear mitochondrial genome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 95, 8124 8129.
7. Escalante AA, Cornejo OE, Freeland DE et al. (2005) A monkey's tale: the origin of Plasmodium vivax as a human malaria parasite. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102, 1980 1985.
8. Excoffier L, Laval G, Schneider S (2005) Arlequin version 3.0: an integrated software package for population genetics data analysis. Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online, 1, 47 50.
9. Felsenstein J (1985) Confidence limits on phylogenies: an approach using the bootstrap. Evolution, 39, 783 791.
10. Frangeul L, Nelson KE, Buchrieser C, Danchin A, Glaser P, Kunst F (1999) Cloning and assembly strategies in microbial genome projects. Microbiology, 145, 2625 2634.
11. Garamszegi LZ (2009) Patterns of co-speciation and host switching in primate malaria parasites. Malaria Journal, 2009, 8:110.
12. Greenwood BM, Fidock DA, Kyle DE et al. (2008) Malaria: progress, perils, and prospects for eradication. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 118, 1266 1276.
13. Hayakawa T, Culleton R, Otani H, Horii T, Tanabe K (2008) Big bang in the evolution of extant malaria parasites. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 25, 2233 2239.
14. Hellgren O (2005) The occurrence of haemosporidian parasites in the Fennoscandian bluethroat (Lucinia svecica) population. Journal of Ornithology, 146, 55 60.
15. Ishtiaq F, Gering E, Rappole JH et al. (2007) Prevalence and diversity of avian hematozoan parasites in Asia: a regional survey. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 43, 382 398.
16. Jongwutiwes S, Putaporntip C, Iwasaki T, Sata T, Kanbara H (2004) Naturally acquired Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in human, Thailand. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10, 2211 2213.
17. Jongwutiwes S, Putaporntip C, Iwasaki T, Ferreira MU, Kanbara H, Hughes AL (2005) Mitochondrial genome sequences support ancient population expansion in Plasmodium vivax. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22, 1733 1739.
18. Križanauskiene A, Pérez-Tris J, Palinauskas V, Hellgren O, Bensch S, Valkiunas G (2010) Molecular phylogenetic and morphological analysis of haemosporidian parasites (Haemosporidia) in a naturally infected European songbird, the blackcap Sylvia atricapilla, with description of Haemoproteus pallidulus sp. nov. Parasitology, 137, 217 227.
19. Loiseau C, Iezhova TA, Valkiunas G et al. (2010) Spatial variation of haemosporidian parasite infection in African rainforest bird species. Journal of Parasitology, 96, 21 29.
20. Martinsen ES, Paperna I, Schall JJ (2006) Morphological versus molecular identification of avian Haemosporidia: an exploration of three species concepts. Parasitology, 133, 279 288.
21. Martinsen ES, Perkins SL, Schall JJ (2008) A three-genome phylogeny of malaria parasites (Plasmodium and closely related genera): evolution of life-history traits and host switches. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 47, 261 273.
22. Mayxay M, Pukrittayakamee S, Newton PN, White NJ (2004) Mixed-species malaria infections in humans. Trends in Parasitology, 20, 233 240.
23. McKenzie FE, Bossert WH (1999) Multispecies Plasmodium infections of humans. Journal of Parasitology, 85, 12 18.
24. Mehlotra RK, Lorry K, Kastens W et al. (2000) Random distribution of mixed species malaria infections in Papua New Guinea. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 62, 225 231.
25. Mehlotra RK, Kasehagen LJ, Baisor M et al. (2002) Malaria infections are randomly distributed in diverse holoendemic areas of Papua New Guinea. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 67, 555 562.
26. Mideo N (2009) Parasite adaptations to within-host competition. Trends in Parasitology, 25, 261 268.
27. Mitsui H, Arisue N, Sakihama N et al. (2010) Phylogeny of Asian primate malarias inferred from apicoplast genome-encoded genes with special emphasis on the positions of Plasmodium vivax and P. fragile. Gene, 450, 32 38.
28. Mu J, Joy DA, Duan J et al. (2005) Host switch leads to emergence of Plasmodium vivax malaria in humans. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22, 1686 1693.
29. Mueller I, Zimmerman PA, Reeder JC (2007) Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium ovale- the "bashful" malaria parasites. Trends in Parasitology, 23, 278 283.
30. Mueller I, Widmer S, Michel D et al. (2009) High sensitivity detection of Plasmodium species reveal positive correlations between infections of different species, shits in age distribution and reduced local variation in Papua New Guinea. Malaria Journal, 2009, 8:41.
31. Nei M, Gojobori T (1986) Simple methods for estimating the numbers of synonymous and nonsynonymous nucleotide substitutions. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 3, 418 426.
32. Nei M, Kumar S (2000) Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics. Oxford University Press, New York.
33. Olival KJ, Stiner EO, Perkins SL (2007) Detection of Hepatocystis sp. in southeast Asian flying foxes (Pteropidae) using microscopic and molecular methods. Journal of Parasitology, 93, 1538 1540.
34. Ollomo B, Durand P, Prugnolle F et al. (2009) A new malaria agent in African hominids. PLoS Pathogens, 5, e1000446.
35. Pérez-Tris J, Bensch S (2005) Diagnosing genetically diverse avian malaria infections using mixed-sequence analysis and TA-cloning. Parasitology, 131, 1 9.
36. Perkins SL (2001) Phylogeography of Caribbean lizard malaria: tracing the history of vector-borne parasites. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 14, 34 45.
37. Perkins SL, Schall JJ (2002) A molecular phylogeny of malarial parasites recovered from cytochrome b gene sequences. Journal of Parasitology, 88, 972 978.
38. Perkins SL, Osgood SM, Schall JJ (1998) Use of PCR for detection of subpatent infections of lizard malaria: implications for epizootiology. Molecular Ecology, 7, 1587 1590.
39. Prugnolle F, Durand P, Neel C et al. (2010) African great apes are natural hosts of multiple related malaria species, including Plasmodium falciparum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107, 1458 1463.
40. Putaporntip C, Hongsrimuang T, Seethamchai S et al. (2009) Differential prevalence of Plasmodium infections and cryptic Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in humans in Thailand. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 199, 1143 1150.
41. Read AF, Taylor LH (2001) The ecology of genetically diverse infections. Science, 292, 1099 1102.
42. Rich SM, Leendertz FH, Xu G et al. (2009) The origin of malignant malaria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 196, 14902 14907.
43. Richie TL (1988) Interactions between malaria parasites infecting the same vertebrate host. Parasitology, 96, 607 639.
44. Saitou N, Nei M (1987) The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 4, 406 425.
45. Schall JJ, Bromwich CR (1994) Interspecific interactions tested: two species of malarial parasite in a West African lizard. Oecologia, 97, 326 332.
46. Seethamchai S, Putaporntip C, Malaivijitnond S, Cui L, Jongwutiwes S (2008) Malaria and Hepatocystis species in wild macaques, southern Thailand. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 78, 646 653.
47. Seyfang A, Jin JH (2004) Multiple site-directed mutagenesis of more than 10 site simultaneously and in a single round. Analytical Biochemistry, 324, 285 291.
48. Seyfang A, Kavanaugh MP, Landfear SM (1997) Aspartate 19 and glutamate 121 are critical for transport function of the myo-inositol/H+ symporter from Leishmania donovani. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 272, 24210 24215.
49. Singh B, Sung LK, Matusop A et al. (2004) A large focus of naturally acquired Plasmodium knowlesi infections in human beings. The Lancet, 363, 1017 1024.
50. Snounou G, White NJ (2004) The co-existence of Plasmodium: sidelights from falciparum and vivax malaria in Thailand. Trends in Parasitology, 20, 333 339.
51. Szöllsi E, Hellgren O, Hasselquist D (2008) A cautionary note on the use of nested PCR for parasite screening - an example from avian blood parasites. Journal of Parasitology, 94, 562 564.
52. Thompson JD, Gibson TJ, Plewniak F, Jeanmougin F, Higgins DG (1997) The ClustalX windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools. Nucleic Acids Research, 25, 4876 4882.
53. Valkiunas G, Bensch S, Iezhova TA, Križéanauskiene A, Hellgren O, Bolshakov CV (2006) Nested cytochrome b polymerase chain reaction diagnostics underestimate mixed infections of avian blood haemosporidian parasites: microscopy is still essential. Journal of Parasitology, 92, 418 422.
54. Valkiunas G, Iezhova TA, Loiseau C, Sehgal RN (2009) Nested cytochrome b polymerase chain reaction diagnostics detect sporozoites of hemosporidian parasites in peripheral blood of naturally infected birds. Journal of Parasitology, 95, 1512 1515. Chaturong Putaporntip's research interests include studies on population genetics, molecular evolution and molecular diagnostics of human and simian malaria. Somchai Jongwutiwes is interested in molecular epidemiology and clinical aspects of human malaria and simian malaria capable of causing diseases in humans, as well as other medically important parasites. Siriporn Thongaree is interested in wildlife conservation in Thailand, especially of wild monkeys and hornbills. Sunee Seethamchai is interested in molecular epidemiology of simian malaria in Thailand. Priscila Grynberg is interested in bioinformatics and molecular evolution of parasites. Austin L. Hughes is interested in population genetics and molecular evolution.