Simple Summary Vector-borne diseases (VBDs)(eg, malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever)
account for 17% of the estimated global burden of all infectious diseases. They are …

Bakground Vector-borne diseases affecting humans, wildlife and livestock have significantly
increased their incidence and distribution in the last decades. Because the interaction …

Illegal or poorly regulated wildlife trade may enhance parasite spread worldwide, leading to
pathogen outbreaks and the emergence of diseases affecting native wildlife, domestic …

Great-tailed Grackles (Quiscalus mexicanus) are a social, polygamous bird species whose
populations have rapidly expanded their geographic range across North America over the …

Leucocytozoon parasites remain poorly investigated in comparison to other
haemosporidians. The host cell inhabited by their blood stages (gametocytes) remains …

Background Plasmodium parasites that cause bird malaria occur in all continents except
Antarctica and are primarily transmitted by mosquitoes in the genus Culex. Culex …

Metacommunity ecology studies how species compositional patterns and their distributions
vary across local and regional scales and provides insights on processes driving the …

Culicoides biting midges are vectors of many haemosporidian parasite species. These
parasites are found in several wild and domestic avian species in Thailand but knowledge of …

Species of subgenus Novyella remain most fragmentarily studied amongst avian malaria
agents. Transmission of the recently described Plasmodium (Novyella) homonucleophilum …

The relationships between host phylogenetics, functional traits and parasites in wildlife
remain poorly understood in the Neotropics, especially in habitats with marked seasonal …