| polychromophilus murinus: a malarial parasite of bats: life-history and ultrastructural studies. | polychromophilus murinus, a malaria parasite of chiroptera is reported from myotis daubentoni in england. the vector was suspected to be the ectoparasitic nycteribiid fly, nycteribia kolenatii. n. kolenatii collected from wild-caught m. daubentoni were found to have oocysts on the midgut and sporozoites in the salivary glands. wild-caught n. kolenatii were maintained on two wild-caught m. daubentoni harbouring heavy (patent) infections of p. murinus; both oocysts and sporozoites were found in th ... | 1988 | 3136420 |
| parasites of parasites of bats: laboulbeniales (fungi: ascomycota) on bat flies (diptera: nycteribiidae) in central europe. | bat flies (streblidae and nycteribiidae) are among the most specialized families of the order diptera. members of these two related families have an obligate ectoparasitic lifestyle on bats, and they are known disease vectors for their hosts. however, bat flies have their own ectoparasites: fungi of the order laboulbeniales. in europe, members of the nycteribiidae are parasitized by four species belonging to the genus arthrorhynchus. we carried out a systematic survey of the distribution and fun ... | 2017 | 28222795 |
| checklist of host associations of european bat flies (diptera: nycteribiidae, streblidae). | bat flies are obligate blood-sucking ectoparasites of bats. they are divided into two families: nycteribiidae and streblidae. europe has 17 species of bat flies and 45 species of bats (mammalia: chiroptera). this checklist is based on both published records and our own field data and provides updated information on all associations between bat flies and their hosts in europe. the host-parasite association between basilia italica theodor and plecotus auritus (linnaeus) is reported for the first t ... | 2016 | 27988583 |
| disease in the dark: molecular characterization of polychromophilus murinus in temperate zone bats revealed a worldwide distribution of this malaria-like disease. | for a better understanding of the complex coevolutionary processes between hosts and parasites, accurate identification of the actors involved in the interaction is of fundamental importance. blood parasites of the order haemosporidia, responsible for malaria, have become the focus of a broad range of studies in evolutionary biology. interestingly, molecular-based studies on avian malaria have revealed much higher species diversity than previously inferred with morphology. meanwhile, studies on ... | 2011 | 21073585 |
| density-dependent sex ratio and sex-specific preference for host traits in parasitic bat flies. | deviation of sex ratios from unity in wild animal populations has recently been demonstrated to be far more prevalent than previously thought. ectoparasites are prominent examples of this bias, given that their sex ratios vary from strongly female- to strongly male-biased both among hosts and at the metapopulation level. to date our knowledge is very limited on how and why these biased sex ratios develop. it was suggested that sex ratio and sex-specific aggregation of ectoparasites might be shap ... | 2017 | 28851414 |