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Journal Article
Haemosporidian and trypanosomatid diversity in a high-latitude island ecosystem, including the first record of Zelonia in the Nearctic
2025
Overview
Biodiversity surveys remain a critical tool for characterizing the global species richness of parasites. In high-latitude regions of the world, characterizing parasite biodiversity is of particular importance due to the rapid rate at which the climate is changing and potentially shifting parasite distributions and abundances. We sampled a bird community on Prince of Wales Island in southern Alaska, United States, to test for the abundance and richness of haemosporidian and trypanosomatid parasites in this understudied region. We tested for parasites in 67 archived tissue samples of 18 bird species, of which five had not been previously tested for haemosporidians and 11 had not been sampled for trypanosomatids using molecular methods. We recovered two novel mitochondrial genetic lineages of haemosporidians (genera
Haemoproteus
and
Leucocytozoon
), and three novel 18S rRNA genotypes belonging to
Trypanosoma
of uncertain species-level affinities. Surprisingly, we also identified a trypanosomatid from the genus
Zelonia
, a group of monoxenous parasites of insects, from an avian tissue. While this anomalous record may have been the result of environmental contamination, it nonetheless reflects the first record of
Zelonia
in the entire Nearctic region.
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,Springer Nature B.V
Subject
/ Animals
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Birds
/ climate
/ genus
/ Haemosporida - classification
/ Haemosporida - isolation & purification
/ Islands
/ Latitude
/ Protozoa
/ RNA, Ribosomal, 18S - genetics
/ rRNA 18S
/ species
/ Trypanosoma - classification
/ Trypanosoma - isolation & purification
/ Trypanosomatina - classification
/ Trypanosomatina - isolation & purification
/ Wales
/ Zelonia
