Haemoproteus parabelopolskyi

Haemoproteus parabelopolskyi is a species of parasitic alveolates that infects birds.

Haemoproteus parabelopolskyi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Aconoidasida
Order: Chromatorida
Family: Haemoproteidae
Genus: Haemoproteus
Species:
H. parabelopolskyi
Binomial name
Haemoproteus parabelopolskyi
Kruse, 1890

Seventeen strains of H. parabelopolskyi are found only in the blackcap, and form a monophyletic group; three further members of that group are found only in the garden warbler, and another three occur in the African hill babbler, supporting the shared ancestry of the three bird species.[1]

References

  1. Pérez-Tris, Javier; Hellgren, Olof; Križanauskienė, Asta; Waldenström, Jonas; Secondi, Jean; Bonneaud, Camille; Fjeldså, Jon; Hasselquist, Dennis; Bensch, Staffan (2007). "Within-host speciation of malaria parasites". PLOS ONE. 2 (2): e235. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000235. PMC 1794596. PMID 17311104.


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