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Experimental Evidence That Blood Parasite Infection Affects Incubation Patterns in a Cavity‐Nesting Songbird

Integrative Zoology, Volume 21, Issue 1, Page 178-191, January 2026.
Chronic blood parasite infections in wild birds can affect their incubation behavior. In pied flycatchers, females with reduced parasite infections incubated for longer than control females. Despite behavioral changes, no immediate effects on fitness were observed.
Marina García‐del Río, Santiago Merino, Julia Chércoles‐Nieto, Davide Baldan, Manuel Fuertes‐Recuero, Alejandro Cantarero   +5 more
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FIGURE 2 in Molecular and morphological characterization of two avian malaria parasites (Haemosporida: Plasmodiidae), with description of Plasmodium homonucleophilum n. sp.

, 2013
FIGURE 2. Plasmodium relictum (lineage pLZFUS01) from the blood of Lanius collurio: a—trophozoite; b–j—erythrocytic meronts; k–o—macrogametocytes; p–t—microgametocytes. Long arrows—parasite nucleus. Short arrows—merozoits.
Iezhova, Tatjana A., Ilgūnas, Mikas, Palinauskas, Vaidas, Valkiūnas, Gediminas   +3 more
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Insights into the biology of Leucocytozoon species (Haemosporida, Leucocytozoidae): Why is there slow research progress on agents of Leucocytozoonosis? / [PDF]

, 2023
Blood parasites of the genus Leucocytozoon (Leucocytozoidae) only inhabit birds and represent a readily distinct evolutionary branch of the haemosporidians (Haemosporida, Apicomplexa).
Tatjana A. Iezhova, Valkiūnas, Gediminas,, Gediminas Valkiūnas, Iezhova, Tatjana A.,   +3 more
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Human biting rhythm of Anopheles gambiae Giles, 1902 (Diptera: Culicidae) and sleeping behaviour of pregnant women in a lagoon area in Southern Benin

BMC Research Notes, 2021
Objective In the framework of EVALMOUS study aiming to assess the use and effectiveness of mosquito nets by pregnant women and other members of their household in a lagoon area in southern Benin, the behaviour of pregnant women relative to the time they ...
Armel Djènontin, Aziz Bouraima, Christophe Soares, Seun Egbinola, Gilles Cottrell   +4 more
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Comparative Analysis of the Exo-Erythrocytic Development of Five Lineages of Haemoproteus majoris, a Common Haemosporidian Parasite of European Passeriform Birds

Pathogens, 2023
Haemoproteus parasites (Apicomplexa, Haemosporida) are widespread pathogens of birds, with a rich genetic (about 1900 lineages) and morphospecies (178 species) diversity. Nonetheless, their life cycles are poorly understood.
Mélanie Duc, Tanja Himmel, Josef Harl, Tatjana Iezhova, Nora Nedorost, Julia Matt, Mikas Ilgūnas, Herbert Weissenböck, Gediminas Valkiūnas   +8 more
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Epidemiological traits of the malaria-like parasite Polychromophilus murinus in the Daubenton’s bat Myotis daubentonii

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background The great diversity of bat haemosporidians is being uncovered with the help of molecular tools. Yet most of these studies provide only snapshots in time of the parasites discovered.
Fardo Witsenburg, Franziska Schneider, Philippe Christe   +2 more
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Diversity and phylogenetic relationships of haemosporidian and hemogregarine parasites in Australian lizards

, 2022
Apicomplexa is a large monophyletic phylum of unicellular, parasitic organisms. Reptiles are hosts to both haemosporidian (Haemosporida) and hemogregarine (Eucoccidiorida) apicomplexan blood parasites. Within reptiles our understanding of their diversity
Balasubramaniam, S, Perkins, SL, Hunjan, S, Boysen, KE, Oliver, P, Gardner, MG, Melville, J, Katja E. Boysen, Paul Oliver, Susan L. Perkins, Sumitha Hunjan, Michael G. Gardner, Shandiya Balasubramaniam, Jane Melville   +13 more
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Data from: The polyphyly of Plasmodium: comprehensive phylogenetic analyses of the malaria parasites (order Haemosporida) reveal widespread taxonomic conflict

, 2018
The evolutionary relationships among the apicomplexan blood pathogens known as the malaria parasites (order Haemosporida), some of which infect nearly 200 million humans each year, has remained a vexing phylogenetic problem due to limitations in taxon ...
Martinsen, Ellen S., West, Christopher J., Perkins, Susan L., West, Christopher, Borner, Janus, Galen, Spencer C., Schaer, Juliane, Galen, Spencer, Martinsen, Ellen, Perkins, Susan, Austin, Christopher C., Austin, Chris C.   +11 more
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Climate‐Driven Increase in Transmission of a Wildlife Malaria Parasite Over the Last Quarter Century

Global Change Biology, Volume 31, Issue 10, October 2025.
Climate warming is shaping ecosystems in several ways, and this includes changes in the dynamics of wildlife disease transmission. Over 26 years, avian malaria parasites have become much more common in a population of blue tits, small songbirds that we surveyed in southern Sweden.
Angela Nicole Theodosopoulos, Fredrik Andreasson, Jane Jönsson, Johan Nilsson, Andreas Nord, Lars Råberg, Martin Stjernman, Ana Sofía Torres Lara, Jan‐Åke Nilsson, Olof Hellgren   +9 more
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Different meal, same flavor: cospeciation and host switching of haemosporidian parasites in some non-passerine birds

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background Previous studies have shown that haemosporidian parasites (Haemoproteus (Parahaemoproteus) and Plasmodium) infecting passerine birds have an evolutionary history of host switching with little cospeciation, in particular at low taxonomic levels
Diego Santiago-Alarcon, Adriana Rodríguez-Ferraro, Patricia G Parker, Robert E Ricklefs   +3 more
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