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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Global phylogeographic limits of Hawaii's avian malaria
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Volume 273, No. 1604, Year 2006
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The introduction of avian malaria (Plasmodium relictum) to Hawaii has provided a model system for studying the influence of exotic disease on naive host populations. Little is known, however, about the origin or the genetic variation of Hawaii's malaria and traditional classification methods have confounded attempts to place the parasite within a global ecological and evolutionary context. Using fragments of the parasite mitochondrial gene cytochrome b and the nuclear gene dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase obtained from a global survey of greater than 13 000 avian samples, we show that Hawaii's avian malaria, which can cause high mortality and is a major limiting factor for many species of native passerines, represents just one of the numerous lineages composing the morphological parasite species. The single parasite lineage detected in Hawaii exhibits a broad host distribution worldwide and is dominant on several other remote oceanic islands, including Bermuda and Moorea, French Polynesia. The rarity of this lineage in the continental New World and the restriction of closely related lineages to the Old World suggest limitations to the transmission of reproductively isolated parasite groups within the morphological species. © 2006 The Royal Society.
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Authors & Co-Authors
Beadell, Jon S.
United States, Washington, D.c.
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
United States, College Park
University of Maryland, College Park
Covas, Rita
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh
Melo, Martim
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh
Warren, Ben H.
United Kingdom, Reading
University of Reading
Atkinson, Carter T.
United States, Washington, D.c.
National Park Service
Bensch, Staffan
Sweden, Lund
Lunds Universitet
Graves, Gary R.
United States, Washington, D.c.
Smithsonian Institution
Jhala, Yadvendradev Vikramsinh
India, Dehradun
Wildlife Institute of India
Peirce, Michael A.
United Kingdom, Bexhill-on-sea
Mp International Consultancy
Rahmani, Asad Rafi
India, Mumbai
Bombay Natural History Society
Fonseca, Dina M.
United States, Philadelphia
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Fleischer, Robert C.
United States, Washington, D.c.
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Statistics
Citations: 267
Authors: 12
Affiliations: 11
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1098/rspb.2006.3671
ISSN:
09628452
Research Areas
Cancer
Genetics And Genomics
Infectious Diseases
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Quantitative