Plasmodium asexual growth and sexual development in the haematopoietic niche of the host

K Venugopal, F Hentzschel, G Valkiūnas… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Plasmodium spp. parasites are the causative agents of malaria in humans and animals, and
they are exceptionally diverse in their morphology and life cycles. They grow and develop in …

Preserve a voucher specimen! The critical need for integrating natural history collections in infectious disease studies

CW Thompson, KL Phelps, MW Allard, JA Cook… - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Despite being nearly 10 months into the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic,
the definitive animal host for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …

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

SC Galen, J Borner, ES Martinsen… - Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The evolutionary relationships among the apicomplexan blood pathogens known as the
malaria parasites (order Haemosporida), some of which infect nearly 200 million humans …

Novel hemotropic mycoplasmas are widespread and genetically diverse in vampire bats

DV Volokhov, DJ Becker, LM Bergner… - Epidemiology & …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Bats (Order: Chiroptera) have been widely studied as reservoir hosts for viruses of concern
for human and animal health. However, whether bats are equally competent hosts of non …

[HTML][HTML] Diverse RNA viruses of arthropod origin in the blood of fruit bats suggest a link between bat and arthropod viromes

AJ Bennett, T Bushmaker, K Cameron, A Ondzie… - Virology, 2019 - Elsevier
Bats host diverse viruses due to their unique ecology, behavior, and immunology. However,
the role of other organisms with which bats interact in nature is understudied as a contributor …

Genomic and transcriptomic evidence for descent from Plasmodium and loss of blood schizogony in Hepatocystis parasites from naturally infected red colobus …

E Aunin, U Böhme, T Sanderson, ND Simons… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Hepatocystis is a genus of single-celled parasites infecting, amongst other hosts, monkeys,
bats and squirrels. Although thought to have descended from malaria parasites …

First investigation of blood parasites of bats in Burkina Faso detects Hepatocystis parasites and infections with diverse Trypanosoma spp.

NG Thiombiano, M Boungou, BAM Chabi, A Oueda… - Parasitology …, 2023 - Springer
Bats are hosts to a large diversity of eukaryotic protozoan blood parasites that comprise
species of Trypanosoma and different haemosporidian parasite taxa and bats have played …

Isolation and molecular characterization of Polychromophilus spp. (Haemosporida: Plasmodiidae) from the Asian long-fingered bat (Miniopterus fuliginosus) and Japanese …

I Rosyadi, H Shimoda, A Takano, T Yanagida… - Parasitology …, 2022 - Springer
Bats (order, Chiroptera) account for more than one-fifth of all mammalian species in the
world and are infected by various intra-erythrocytic parasites of the family Plasmodiidae …

Extensive diversity of malaria parasites circulating in Central African bats and monkeys

L Boundenga, B Ngoubangoye, IM Mombo… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The order Haemosporidia gathers many protozoan parasites which are known to infect
many host species and groups. Until recently, the studies on haemosporidian parasites …

First Molecular Detection of Polychromophilus Parasites in Brazilian Bat Species

GA Minozzo, B da Silva Mathias, IN Riediger… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Blood parasites of the Haemosporida order, such as the Plasmodium spp. responsible for
malaria, have become the focus of many studies in evolutionary biology. However, there is a …