Publications

saurian malaria: development of sporozoites in two species of phlebotomine sandflies.	sporolzoites of a lizard malaria parasite, plasmodium mexicanum. developed in two spcies of sandfly-lutzomyia vexatrix and lutzomyia stewarti. salivary g1ands were infected 11 days after the flies took an infective blood meal. this is the first report of a malaria parasite undergoing sporogonic development in an insect other than a mosquito and the first description of lizard malaria sporogenesis.	1970	5410856
clonal diversity of a malaria parasite, plasmodium mexicanum, and its transmission success from its vertebrate-to-insect host.	infections of the lizard malaria parasite plasmodium mexicanum are often genetically complex within their fence lizard host (sceloporus occidentalis) harbouring two or more clones of parasite. the role of clonal diversity in transmission success was studied for p. mexicanum by feeding its sandfly vectors (lutzomyia vexator and lutzomyia stewarti) on experimentally infected lizards. experimental infections consisted of one, two, three or more clones, assessed using three microsatellite markers. a ...	2009	19523471
virulence of a malaria parasite, plasmodium mexicanum, for its sand fly vectors, lutzomyia vexator and lutzomyia stewarti (diptera: psychodidae).	evolutionary theory predicts that virulence of parasites for mobile vector insects will be low for natural parasite-host associations that have coevolved. i determined virulence of the malaria parasite of lizards, plasmodium mexicanum, for its vectors, two species of sand fly (diptera: psychodidae), lutzomyia vexator (coquillett 1907) and lutzomyia stewarti (mangabeira fo & galindo 1944), by measuring several life history traits. developmental rate from egg to eclosion differed for the two speci ...	2011	22238877
discrimination of the plasmodium mexicanum vectors lutzomyia stewarti and lutzomyia vexator by a pcr-rflp assay and wolbachia infection.		0	24820578