Host specificity in avian blood parasites: a study of Plasmodium and Haemoproteus mitochondrial DNA amplified from birds

By S. Bensch, Martin Stjernman, Dennis Hasselquist, Östman Örjan, B. Hannson, H. Westerdahl, R. Pinheiro. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Parasitology

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Inordinate Fondness Multiplied and Redistributed: the Number of Species on Earth and the New Pie of Life (2017, background): “In addition, host specificity is often found to be strict when thoroughly investigated among closely related host species (birds: Bensch et al. 2000; Beadell et al. 2004; Blattodea: Clopton and Gold 1996; Smith and Cook 2008; Diptera: Lantová et al. 2010; Coleoptera and other insect orders: Clopton…”
Passerine MHC: genetic variation and disease resistance in the wild (2007, background): “…maintains the MHC genetic diversity in passerines because (a) these pathogens are common, (b) experiments have shown that they could be lethal, and (c) their prevalence varies in time and space (Atkinson and van Riper 1991; Bensch et al. 2000; Ricklefs and Fallon 2002; Bensch and Åkesson 2003).”
MalAvi: a public database of malaria parasites and related haemosporidians in avian hosts based on mitochondrial cytochrome b lineages (2009, background): “To define unique lineages, we chose the 479 base pairs between the primers HAEMF and HAEMR2 for Plasmodium and Haemoproteus parasites (Bensch et al. 2000), with the corresponding 480 bp for Leucocytozoon parasites between primers HAEMFL and HAEMR2L (Hellgren et al. 2004).”
Genetic diversity of avian blood parasites in SE Europe: Cytochrome b lineages of the genera Plasmodium and Haemoproteus (Haemosporida) from Bulgaria (2010, background): “During the last ten years, the amplification of a specific part of the mitochondrial cytochrome b (cyt b) gene ( Bensch et al. 2000, Perkins and Schall 2002, Hellgren et al. 2004, Waldenstrom et al. 2004) has provided new opportunities in the studies of specificity, diversity, distribution, ecology”
Avian Hematozoa in South America: a Comparison of Temperate and Tropical Zones (2006, result): “This is in accordance with recent research indicating that avian hematozoa are less host-specifi c than previously believed (Bensch et al. 2000, Ricklefs and Fallon 2002, Beadell et al. 2004 [Plasmodium only]) and that the identity of a host species may no longer be considered a valid criterion for…”
Community relationships of avian malaria parasites in southern missouri (2005, methodology): “Several cases of closely related lineages occurring in the same host species have been identified (Bensch et al. 2000, Ricklefs and Fallon 2002, Beadell et al. 2004).”
Disease-limited distributions? Contrasts in the prevalence of avian malaria in shorebird species using marine and freshwater habitats (2005, background): “This has been quite striking with respect to Haemoproteus and Plasmodium (Bensch et al. 2000, Ricklefs and Fallon 2002, Walden- ström et al. 2002, 2004) and Trypanosoma (Sehgal et al. 2001), the prevalence of which has been found to be higher than previously thought (Bensch et al. 2000, Sehgal et a”
Comparative immunoecology in birds: hypotheses and tests (2007, background): “This would be particularly true for sedentary and short distance migrants that do not reach parasite-rich tropical regions in the winter, but also for hole-nesting birds where parasites accumulate in the nest over the breeding season (Møller and Erritzøe 1996).”
A NEW PCR ASSAY FOR SIMULTANEOUS STUDIES OF LEUCOCYTOZOON, PLASMODIUM, AND HAEMOPROTEUS FROM AVIAN BLOOD (2004, methodology): “Primer pairs that amplify the conserved regions of the Haemoproteus spp. and Plasmodium spp. cytochrome b genes have previously been developed at Lund (Bensch et al., 2000; Waldenström et al., 2004).”
Haematozoa in forest birds from southern Chile: Latitudinal gradients in prevalence and parasite lineage richness (2008, background): “Although molecular studies of these parasites have shown that at least some parasite lineages are capable of infecting birds from different families (Bensch et al. 2000), not all of the bird–parasite interactions detected will be stable through time.”