Explaining prevalence, diversity and host specificity in a community of avian haemosporidian parasites

Climate variation influences host specificity in avian malaria parasites

(2019) Alan Fecchio et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Host-parasite interaction explains variation in the prevalence of avian haemosporidians at the community level

(2019) Luz Garcia-Longoria et al.   PLoS One

Duration of embryo development and the prevalence of haematozoan blood parasites in birds

(2018) Robert E. Ricklefs et al.   AUK

Host species, and not environment, predicts variation in blood parasite prevalence, distribution, and diversity along a humidity gradient in northern South America

(2018) Paulo C. Pulgarín-R et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The polyphyly of Plasmodium : comprehensive phylogenetic analyses of the malaria parasites (order Haemosporida) reveal widespread taxonomic conflict

(2018) Spencer C. Galen et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Integrating coalescent species delimitation with analysis of host specificity reveals extensive cryptic diversity despite minimal mitochondrial divergence in the malaria parasite genus Leucocytozoon

(2018) Spencer C. Galen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Host specificity of avian haemosporidian parasites is unrelated among sister lineages but shows phylogenetic signal across larger clades

(2018) Vincenzo A. Ellis et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

The success of sequence capture in relation to phylogenetic distance from a reference genome: a case study of avian haemosporidian parasites

(2018) Xi Huang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Host traits associated with species roles in parasite sharing networks

(2018) Tad A. Dallas et al.   OIKOS

Evolution of Copy Number at the MHC Varies across the Avian Tree of Life

(2018) Piotr Minias et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

A new one-step multiplex PCR assay for simultaneous detection and identification of avian haemosporidian parasites

(2018) Arif Ciloglu et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Spatial and seasonal variation of avian malaria infections in five different land use types within a Neotropical montane forest matrix

(2017) Carolina Hernández-Lara et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Mode and Rate of Evolution of Haemosporidian Mitochondrial Genomes: Timing the Radiation of Avian Parasites

(2017) M Andreína Pacheco et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Integrating phylogenetic and ecological distances reveals new insights into parasite host specificity

(2017) Nicholas J. Clark et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The transcriptome of the avian malaria parasite Plasmodium ashfordi displays host-specific gene expression

(2017) Elin Videvall et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Estimating prevalence of avian haemosporidians in natural populations: a comparative study on screening protocols

(2017) Farah Ishtiaq et al.   Parasites & Vectors

The Genome ofHaemoproteus tartakovskyiand Its Relationship to Human Malaria Parasites

(2016) Staffan Bensch et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Co-infections and environmental conditions drive the distributions of blood parasites in wild birds

(2016) Nicholas J. Clark et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Multiple cryptic species of sympatric generalists within the avian blood parasiteHaemoproteus majoris

(2016) E. Nilsson et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Resource predictability and specialization in avian malaria parasites

(2016) Maria Svensson-Coelho et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The evolution of highly variable immunity genes across a passerine bird radiation

(2016) E. A. O'Connor et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Phylogeny of haemosporidian blood parasites revealed by a multi-gene approach

(2016) Janus Borner et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Prevalence of avian haemosporidian parasites is positively related to the abundance of host species at multiple sites within a region

(2016) Vincenzo A. Ellis et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Song sparrowsMelospiza melodiahave a home-field advantage in defending against sympatric malarial parasites

(2016) Yanina Sarquis-Adamson et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Parasite diversity declines with host evolutionary distinctiveness: A global analysis of carnivores

(2015) Shan Huang et al.   EVOLUTION

The Avian Transcriptome Response to Malaria Infection

(2015) Elin Videvall et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic structure and host abundance drive disease pressure in communities

(2015) Ingrid M. Parker et al.   NATURE

Prevalence and diversity of Plasmodium and Haemoproteus parasites in the globally-threatened Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola

(2015) JÚLIO MANUEL NETO et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Plasmodium prevalence across avian host species is positively associated with exposure to mosquito vectors

(2015) MATTHEW C. I. MEDEIROS et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Testing Local Adaptation in a Natural Great Tit-Malaria System: An Experimental Approach

(2015) Tania Jenkins et al.   PLoS One

Manifold habitat effects on the prevalence and diversity of avian blood parasites

(2015) Ravinder N.M. Sehgal   International Journal for Parasitology-Parasites and Wildlife

MCMC Methods for Multi-Response Generalized Linear Mixed Models: TheMCMCglmmRPackage

(2015) Jarrod D. Hadfield   Journal of Statistical Software

Global phylogeography of the avian malaria pathogenPlasmodium relictumbased on MSP1 allelic diversity

(2014) Olof Hellgren et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A review of global diversity in avian haemosporidians (Plasmodium and Haemoproteus: Haemosporida): new insights from molecular data

(2014) Nicholas J. Clark et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Diverse avian malaria and other haemosporidian parasites in Andean house wrens: evidence for regional co-diversification by host-switching

(2014) Spencer C. Galen et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Specialized avian Haemosporida trade reduced host breadth for increased prevalence

(2014) M. C. I. Medeiros et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Molecular identification of the chitinase genes in Plasmodium relictum

(2014) Luz Garcia-Longoria et al.   MALARIA JOURNAL

Does the niche breadth or trade-off hypothesis explain the abundance-occupancy relationship in avian Haemosporidia?

(2014) Sergei V. Drovetski et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Early warning of West Nile virus mosquito vector: climate and land use models successfully explain phenology and abundance of Culex pipiens mosquitoes in north-western Italy

(2014) Roberto Rosà et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Diptera vectors of avian Haemosporidian parasites: untangling parasite life cycles and their taxonomy

(2012) Diego Santiago-Alarcon et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Structure and organization of an avian haemosporidian assemblage in a Neotropical savanna in Brazil

(2012) ALAN FECCHIO et al.   PARASITOLOGY

How to measure and test phylogenetic signal

(2012) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogenetic signal and linear regression on species data

(2010) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A jack-of-all-trades and still a master of some: prevalence and host range in avian malaria and related blood parasites

(2009) Olof Hellgren et al.   ECOLOGY

Sufficient sampling for asymptotic minimum species richness estimators

(2009) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGY

MalAvi: a public database of malaria parasites and related haemosporidians in avian hosts based on mitochondrial cytochromeblineages

(2009) STAFFAN BENSCH et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Plasmodium relictum (lineage P-SGS1): Effects on experimentally infected passerine birds

(2008) Vaidas Palinauskas et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

Evolutionarily distinctive species often capture more phylogenetic diversity than expected

(2007) David W. Redding et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

A three-genome phylogeny of malaria parasites (Plasmodium and closely related genera): Evolution of life-history traits and host switches

(2007) Ellen S. Martinsen et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION