| experimental transmission of hepatozoon clamatae (apicomplexa: adeleida) to the wood frog, rana sylvatica, and to the mosquito culex pipiens. | hepatozoon clamatae naturally infects the erythrocytes of green frogs (rana clamitans), bullfrogs (rana catesbeiana), and northern leopard frogs (rana pipiens) in northeastern north america and uses the mosquito culex territans as a definitive host. in this study, we show that the wood frog, rana sylvatica, supports merogonic development, but not gamogonic development, of this protozoan parasite, and that the mosquito culex pipiens serves as an experimental definitive host for sporogonic develop ... | 2010 | 19895159 |
| intraerythrocytic development of species of hepatozoon infecting ranid frogs: evidence for convergence of life cycle characteristics among apicomplexans. | intraerythrocytic development of the adeleorin apicomplexans hepatozoon clamatae and hepatozoon catesbianae were investigated in the bullfrog, rana catesbeiana, the green frog, rana clamitans melanota, and the northern leopard frog, rana pipiens. merozoites emerging from hepatic meronts penetrated erythrocytes and underwent 1-3 rounds of binary fission to produce 2-8 merozoites. following their release from infected erythrocytes, individual merozoites entered new cells and transformed into gamon ... | 2000 | 10864239 |
| the life history and host specificity of hepatozoon clamatae (apicomplexa: adeleorina) and its-1 nucleotide sequence variation of hepatozoon species of frogs and mosquitoes from ontario. | the life cycle of an intraerythrocytic hemogregarine, hepatozoon clamatae, was studied in green frogs (rana clamitans melanota), bullfrogs (rana catesbeiana), northern leopard frogs (rana pipiens), and in the mosquito, culex territans. gametogenesis, fertilization, and sporogony occurred within cells of the malpighian tubules of laboratory-reared cx. territans that had fed on naturally infected frogs. mature oocysts containing hundreds of sporocysts were observed in mosquitoes 30 days postfeedin ... | 1998 | 9714212 |