2014
DOI: 10.1645/13-362.1
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Malaria's Many Mates: Past, Present, and Future of the Systematics of the Order Haemosporida

Abstract: Malaria has been one of the most important diseases of humans throughout history and continues to be a major public health concern. The 5 species of Plasmodium that cause the disease in humans are part of the order Haemosporida, a diverse group of parasites that all have heteroxenous life cycles, alternating between a vertebrate host and a free-flying, blood-feeding dipteran vector. Traditionally, the identification and taxonomy of these parasites relied heavily on life-history characteristics, basic morpholog… Show more

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“…Historical classification of mammalian haemosporidian parasites was done according to morphological and biological characteristics, resulting in initial misplacement of some chiropteran haemosporidian parasites to the genus Plasmodium. However, the observation that certain bat parasites lack schizogony in erythrocytes and, therefore, cannot represent the genus Plasmodium, led to a reclassification of several species (Garnham, 1950;Perkins, 2014). The incorporation of molecular data into systematic studies of the family also has challenged some previous classifications.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Historical classification of mammalian haemosporidian parasites was done according to morphological and biological characteristics, resulting in initial misplacement of some chiropteran haemosporidian parasites to the genus Plasmodium. However, the observation that certain bat parasites lack schizogony in erythrocytes and, therefore, cannot represent the genus Plasmodium, led to a reclassification of several species (Garnham, 1950;Perkins, 2014). The incorporation of molecular data into systematic studies of the family also has challenged some previous classifications.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Its distribution, diversity and host specificity vary among biogeographical regions (Clark et al 2014), bird communities and host species (Fecchio et al 2013;Svensson-Coelho et al 2013), the latter because of differences in life history traits of birds. Many lineages of haemosporidian parasites have been described with the use of molecular tools that target the cytochrome b gene of these parasites, with results indicating that there are as many lineages of haemosporidian parasites, as there are of bird host species (Ricklefs et al 2005;Svensson-Coelho et al 2013;Clark et al 2014;Perkins 2014). In addition, molecular studies of avian malaria parasite assemblages have changed the view that blood parasites are usually host specialists (Ricklefs et al 2005;Fecchio et al 2013;Svensson-Coelho et al 2013;Clark et al 2014).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The more than 600 other described lineages of hemosporidians use nonhuman primates, rodents, and bats, as well as birds and lizards, as their vertebrate hosts. These diverse lineages show differing life cycles and frequently use blood-feeding dipterans other than mosquitoes as definitive hosts (1, 2). Early in 2016, a set of three papers was published, each reporting finding hemosporidian (“malaria”) parasites infecting ungulate hosts.…”
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confidence: 99%