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Haemosporidian parasite community in migrating bobolinks on the Galapagos Islands

Bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) migrate from their breeding grounds in North America to their wintering grounds in South America during the fall each year. A small number of Bobolinks stop temporarily in Galapagos, and potentially carry parasites. On the North American breeding grounds, Bobolinks...

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Autores principales: Perlut, Noah G., Parker, Patricia G., Renfrew, Rosalind B., Jaramillo, Maricruz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6032038/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29988782
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2018.05.006
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author Perlut, Noah G.
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description Bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) migrate from their breeding grounds in North America to their wintering grounds in South America during the fall each year. A small number of Bobolinks stop temporarily in Galapagos, and potentially carry parasites. On the North American breeding grounds, Bobolinks carry a least two of the four Plasmodium lineages recently detected in resident Galapagos birds. We hypothesized that Bobolinks carried these parasites to Galapagos, where they were bitten by mosquitoes that then transmitted the parasites to resident birds. The haemosporidian parasite community in 44% of the Bobolinks we captured was consistent with those on their breeding grounds. However, the lineages were not those found in Galapagos birds. Our results provide a parasite community key for future monitoring.
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spelling pubmed-60320382018-07-09 Haemosporidian parasite community in migrating bobolinks on the Galapagos Islands Perlut, Noah G. Parker, Patricia G. Renfrew, Rosalind B. Jaramillo, Maricruz Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl Article Bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) migrate from their breeding grounds in North America to their wintering grounds in South America during the fall each year. A small number of Bobolinks stop temporarily in Galapagos, and potentially carry parasites. On the North American breeding grounds, Bobolinks carry a least two of the four Plasmodium lineages recently detected in resident Galapagos birds. We hypothesized that Bobolinks carried these parasites to Galapagos, where they were bitten by mosquitoes that then transmitted the parasites to resident birds. The haemosporidian parasite community in 44% of the Bobolinks we captured was consistent with those on their breeding grounds. However, the lineages were not those found in Galapagos birds. Our results provide a parasite community key for future monitoring. Elsevier 2018-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6032038/ /pubmed/29988782 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2018.05.006 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Australian Society for Parasitology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29988782
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2018.05.006
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