Extremely low Plasmodium prevalence in wild plovers and coursers from Cape Verde and Madagascar
| Autor: | Tamás Székely, Luke J. Eberhart-Phillips, Sama Zefania, Josué Martínez de la Puente, Joseph I. Hoffman, M. Cristina Carmona-Isunza, María José Navarro, Jordi Figuerola, Oliver Krüger |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Volkswagen Foundation, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), European Commission, German Research Foundation |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Charadriiformes Leucocytozoon Plasmodium Malaria Avian lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine lcsh:RC955-962 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases Wild birds Cape verde 03 medical and health sciences Species Specificity Avian malaria parasitic diseases Cabo Verde Madagascar Prevalence medicine Animals lcsh:RC109-216 Protozoan Infections biology Ecology Research Plover digestive oral and skin physiology Haemosporida biology.organism_classification medicine.disease 030104 developmental biology Infectious Diseases Haemoproteus Parasitology geographic locations |
| Zdroj: | Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname Malaria Journal, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 1-5 (2017) Malaria Journal |
| Popis: | [Background] Relatively little is known about the prevalence of blood parasites in shorebirds, especially those breeding in the tropics. The prevalence of blood parasites of the genera Plasmodium, Haemoproteus and Leucocytozoon was assessed in blood samples from Kentish plovers and cream-coloured coursers in Cape Verde, and samples of Kittlitz’s plovers, Madagascar plovers and white-fronted plovers in Madagascar. [Results] Only two of these samples were positive for Plasmodium: a Kittlitz’s plover was infected by a generalist lineage of Plasmodium that has already been reported in Europe and Africa, while in a white-fronted plover direct sequencing revealed a previously un-described Plasmodium lineage. [Conclusion] Potential explanations for the low prevalence of blood parasites include the scarcity of vectors in habitats used by these bird species and their resistance to parasitic infections. This study was funded by grants from the VolkswagenStiftung (Social behaviour and diseases: a comparative investigation of island and mainland bird populations) to TS and JF, Grant CGL2015-65055-P from the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad and European Regional Development’s funds (FEDER) to JF, and the Deutsche Forchungsgemeinschaft (GZ: KR 2089/9-1, AOBJ: 600454) to OK, JH, and TS. JMP and MJ were supported by a Juan de la Cierva contract and a grant from SEO/Birdlife, respectively. |
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