Bird parasitology and diseases

The study shows climate warming has increased malaria parasite prevalence and transmission in blue tits over 26 years, with specific temperature windows driving the trend.

The study examines immunogenetic diversity and haemosporidian parasitization in bluethroats, finding no significant link between genetic diversity and parasite prevalence.

The paper shows that treating trichomonosis and reducing poultry bugs in golden eagle nests improves nestling survival and population growth.

This study investigates how the avian malaria parasite P. homocircumflexum adjusts its gene expression across different bird hosts, finding evidence for epigenetic inheritance and transcriptional plasticity.

This study shows that rising temperatures increase biting midge abundance, leading to higher parasitemia in birds and affecting population dynamics.

The paper examines how urbanisation affects avian malaria in juvenile songbirds, finding that earlier hatching reduces infection risk and urban effects arise from phenological differences.

The paper investigates how the nutritional quality of anthropogenic food affects disease transmission in wildlife, finding that lower quality food leads to larger epidemics and population declines.

The paper examines how diet affects host tolerance to a bacterial pathogen in birds, finding that protein-fed birds show greater transcriptional priming and tolerance during recovery.

The paper examines how host niche breadth influences parasite prevalence in disturbed vs. natural habitats, finding generalist parasites infect generalist hosts more frequently.

The paper identifies two novel Matryoshka RNA viruses in wild birds, showing their association with haemosporidian parasites and prevalence in infected birds.

The paper uses single-cell RNA sequencing to study host-parasite interactions in an avian blood parasite, revealing immune evasion strategies and immunosuppression by the parasite.

This study shows that prior pathogen exposure in house finches reduces transmission likelihood but does not eliminate it, especially with more transmissible strains.

This study shows that helminth infection in feral pigeons reduces lice abundance, suggesting inhibitory interactions between parasites, though the mechanism remains unclear.

This study finds that lead exposure increases coccidia abundance in male feral pigeons but not other parasites, suggesting lead may impair host antiparasitic defenses.

This study shows that higher parasite burden in vertebrate hosts leads to shorter extrinsic incubation periods in mosquitoes, but not increased transmissible stages.

This study finds that malaria-like infections in juvenile birds delay their post-juvenile moult, potentially reducing their fitness by prolonging the period of incomplete plumage.

The paper compares immune function and oxidative status in invasive Egyptian geese and native waterfowl species, finding lower adaptive immune markers in the invasive species.

This study examines how Plasmodium modulates mosquito metabolic pathways through transcriptomic analysis, revealing potential parasite-driven manipulation of host physiology.

This study links gut microbiome diversity to reproductive success in male collared flycatchers but not females, using long-term monitoring data from wild birds.

The paper examines how two avian Plasmodium species induce distinct transcriptional responses in their mosquito vector Culex pipiens at different stages of infection.

This study compares the transcriptomic responses of two Galapagos finch species to avian pox virus infection, finding differences in immune response and viral manipulation of host cells.

The paper examines the prevalence and phylogenetic relationships of avian haemosporidians in Indian bird species and their global lineages.

The paper develops a sequence capture method to obtain nuclear loci from haemosporidian parasites in wild birds, improving phylogenetic resolution over mitochondrial DNA barcoding.

The paper reports the genome sequencing of two avian malaria parasites and identifies lineage-specific features associated with their evolution in birds and mammals.