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Assemblages of Plasmodium and Related Parasites in Birds with Different Migration Statuses

Migratory birds spend several months in their breeding grounds in sympatry with local resident birds and relatively shorter periods of time at stopover sites. During migration, parasites may be transmitted between migratory and resident birds. However, to what extent they share these parasites remai...

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Autores principales: Huang, Xi, Chen, Zelin, Yang, Guocheng, Xia, Canwei, Luo, Qiujin, Gao, Xiang, Dong, Lu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9499606/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36142189
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms231810277
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author Huang, Xi
Chen, Zelin
Yang, Guocheng
Xia, Canwei
Luo, Qiujin
Gao, Xiang
Dong, Lu
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Chen, Zelin
Yang, Guocheng
Xia, Canwei
Luo, Qiujin
Gao, Xiang
Dong, Lu
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description Migratory birds spend several months in their breeding grounds in sympatry with local resident birds and relatively shorter periods of time at stopover sites. During migration, parasites may be transmitted between migratory and resident birds. However, to what extent they share these parasites remains unclear. In this study, we compared the assemblages of haemosporidian parasites in migratory, resident, and passing birds, as well as the correlations between parasite assemblages and host phylogeny. Compared with passing birds, migratory birds were more likely to share parasites with resident birds. Shared lineages showed significantly higher prevalence rates than other lineages, indicating that common parasites are more likely to spill over from the current host to other birds. For shared lineages, the prevalence was significantly higher in resident birds than in migratory birds, suggesting that migratory birds pick up parasites at their breeding ground. Among the shared lineages, almost two-thirds presented no phylogenetic signal in their prevalence, indicating that parasite transmission among host species is weakly or not correlated with host phylogeny. Moreover, similarities between parasite assemblages are not correlated with either migration status or the phylogeny of hosts. Our results show that the prevalence, rather than host phylogeny, plays a central role in parasite transmission between migratory and resident birds in breeding grounds.
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spelling pubmed-94996062022-09-23 Assemblages of Plasmodium and Related Parasites in Birds with Different Migration Statuses Huang, Xi Chen, Zelin Yang, Guocheng Xia, Canwei Luo, Qiujin Gao, Xiang Dong, Lu Int J Mol Sci Article Migratory birds spend several months in their breeding grounds in sympatry with local resident birds and relatively shorter periods of time at stopover sites. During migration, parasites may be transmitted between migratory and resident birds. However, to what extent they share these parasites remains unclear. In this study, we compared the assemblages of haemosporidian parasites in migratory, resident, and passing birds, as well as the correlations between parasite assemblages and host phylogeny. Compared with passing birds, migratory birds were more likely to share parasites with resident birds. Shared lineages showed significantly higher prevalence rates than other lineages, indicating that common parasites are more likely to spill over from the current host to other birds. For shared lineages, the prevalence was significantly higher in resident birds than in migratory birds, suggesting that migratory birds pick up parasites at their breeding ground. Among the shared lineages, almost two-thirds presented no phylogenetic signal in their prevalence, indicating that parasite transmission among host species is weakly or not correlated with host phylogeny. Moreover, similarities between parasite assemblages are not correlated with either migration status or the phylogeny of hosts. Our results show that the prevalence, rather than host phylogeny, plays a central role in parasite transmission between migratory and resident birds in breeding grounds. MDPI 2022-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9499606/ /pubmed/36142189 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms231810277 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Huang, Xi
Chen, Zelin
Yang, Guocheng
Xia, Canwei
Luo, Qiujin
Gao, Xiang
Dong, Lu
Assemblages of Plasmodium and Related Parasites in Birds with Different Migration Statuses
title Assemblages of Plasmodium and Related Parasites in Birds with Different Migration Statuses
title_full Assemblages of Plasmodium and Related Parasites in Birds with Different Migration Statuses
title_fullStr Assemblages of Plasmodium and Related Parasites in Birds with Different Migration Statuses
title_full_unstemmed Assemblages of Plasmodium and Related Parasites in Birds with Different Migration Statuses
title_short Assemblages of Plasmodium and Related Parasites in Birds with Different Migration Statuses
title_sort assemblages of plasmodium and related parasites in birds with different migration statuses
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9499606/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36142189
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms231810277
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