Description of Leucocytozoon quynzae sp. nov. (Haemosporida, Leucocytozoidae) from hummingbirds, with remarks on distribution and possible vectors of leucocytozoids in South America

Parasitology Research

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 457-468

  Matta, Nubia E ^a   Lotta, Ingrid A ^a   Valkiūnas, Gediminas ^b   González, Angie D ^a   Pacheco, M Andreína ^c   Escalante, Ananias A ^c   Moncada, Ligia I ^a   Rodríguez Fandiño, Oscar A ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b Nature Research Centre   (Lithuania)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Dirección de Investigación   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD PARASITE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; COELIGENA HELIANTHEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMOSPORIDA; HELIANGELUS AMETHYSTICOLLIS; HOST CELL; HUMMINGBIRD; LEUCOCYTOZOIDAE; LEUCOCYTOZOON QUYNZAE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MACROGAMETOCYTE; MALE; METALLURA TYRIANTHINA; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPISTHOPRORA EURYPTERA; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; COLOMBIA; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HAEMOSPORIDA; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SIMULIIDAE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84903368062     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-013-3675-x     Document Type: Article

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