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ArticleParasitology2021

Oscar Hernandes Córdoba, Francisco C Ferreira, M Andreína Pacheco, Ananias A Escalante, Érika Martins Braga

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Article in Parasitology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Molecular and morphological characterization of hemoprotozoan infections in imported reptiles in Taiwan.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Oscar Hernandes CórdobaRed de Biología y Conservación de Vertebrados, Instituto de Ecología, A.C. Xalapa, Veracruz, México.ORCID 0000-0001-5994-6456
Francisco C FerreiraCenter for Conservation Genomics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2034-4121
M Andreína PachecoBiology Department/Institute of Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine (iGEM), Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Ananias A EscalanteBiology Department/Institute of Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine (iGEM), Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Érika Martins BragaMalaria Laboratory, Department of Parasitology, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte - MG, Brazil.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Delimiting and describing Plasmodium species in reptiles remains a pressing problem in Haemosporida taxonomy. The few morphological characters used can overlap, and the significance of some life-history traits is not fully understood. Morphologically identical lizard Plasmodium forms have been reported infecting different cell types (red and white blood cells) in the same host and have been considered the same species. An example is Plasmodium tropiduri tropiduri, a species known to infect erythrocytes, thrombocytes and lymphocyte-like cells. Here, both forms of P. t. tropiduri were analysed using light microscope-based morphological characteristics and phylogenetic inferences based on almost complete mitochondrial genomes of parasites naturally infecting lizards in southeastern Brazil. Although morphologically similar, two distinct phylogenetic lineages infecting erythrocytes and non-erythrocytic cells were found. The lineage found in the erythrocytes forms a monophyletic group with species from Colombia. However, the non-erythrocytic lineage shares a recent common ancestor with Plasmodium leucocytica, which infects leucocytes in lizards from the Caribbean islands. Here, Plasmodium ouropretensis n. sp. is described as a species that infects thrombocytes and lymphocyte-like cells.

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LizardsMalariaParasitesPlasmodiumAnimalsErythrocytesPhylogenyCryptic speciescytb geneHaemosporidamtDNA sequencing

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PMID34099070
PMCPMC11010158

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