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<i>Plasmodium buteonis</i>

Plasmodium buteonis

Species of single-celled organism

Plasmodium buteonis is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Giovannolaia.

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Like all Plasmodium species P. buteonis has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are birds.

Taxonomy

The parasite was first described by Paperna et al. in 2007.[1] P. buteonis cannot be distinguished from some others of the same subgenus – P. gabaldoni and P. homocircumfexum – and may in fact not be a valid name.[2]

Distribution

This parasite is found in Israel.

Hosts

P. buteonis infects the common buzzard (Buteo buteo).

References

  1. [1]
    Paperna, I.; Yosef, R.; Landau, I. (2007). "Plasmodium spp. in raptors on the Eurasian-African migration route". Parasite. 14 (4): 313–322. doi:10.1051/parasite/2007144313. ISSN 1252-607X. PMID 18225420. Open access icon
  2. [2]
    Valkiūnas, Gediminas; Iezhova, Tatjana A. (2018-05-29). "Keys to the avian malaria parasites". Malaria Journal. 17 (1). BioMed Central: 212. doi:10.1186/s12936-018-2359-5. ISSN 1475-2875. PMC 5975542. PMID 29843718. S2CID 44104862. (GV ORCID: 0000-0003-0594-0280).


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