| invader or resident? ancient-dna reveals rapid species turnover in new zealand little penguins. | the expansion of humans into previously unoccupied parts of the globe is thought to have driven the decline and extinction of numerous vertebrate species. in new zealand, human settlement in the late thirteenth century ad led to the rapid demise of a distinctive vertebrate fauna, and also a number of 'turnover' events where extinct lineages were subsequently replaced by closely related taxa. the recent genetic detection of an australian little penguin (eudyptula novaehollandiae) in southeastern ... | 2016 | 26842575 |
| australian penguin ticks screened for novel borrelia species. | lyme borreliosis (or lyme disease) is an emerging threat to human health in the northern hemisphere caused by tick-borne bacteria from the borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (bbsl) complex. seabirds are important reservoir hosts of some members of the bbsl complex in the northern hemisphere, and some evidence suggests this may be true of penguins in the southern hemisphere. while the bbsl complex has not been detected in australia, a novel borrelia species ('candidatus borrelia tachyglossi') was re ... | 2017 | 29275874 |
| gastrointestinal helminths of little blue penguins, eudyptula novaehollandiae (stephens), from otago, new zealand. | data regarding helminth communities can provide insights into health, feeding interactions, behaviour and evolution of their host organisms. penguins (spheniscidae) are important components of marine food webs and tracking their helminth communities can be indicative of ecosystem health. new zealand is home to 5 of the world's 19 penguin species and little is known about their gastrointestinal helminths. here, we provide the first study on the gastrointestinal helminths of little blue penguins f ... | 2020 | 32919082 |
| galactosomum otepotiense n. sp. (trematoda: heterophyidae) infecting four different species of fish-eating birds in new zealand: genetically identical but morphologically variable. | trematodes of the genus galactosomum are cosmopolitan parasites that infect the intestines of fish-eating birds and mammals. adults of named galactosomum species have not been recorded from bird hosts in new zealand, despite their cercarial stage being known from various studies of the first intermediate host, zeacumantus subcarinatus. here we describe a new species of galactosomum infecting four different piscivorous birds in new zealand: caspian terns, red-billed and black-backed gulls and lit ... | 2019 | 31500672 |