| characterization of poxviruses from forest birds in hawaii. | two strains of avian pox viruses were isolated from cutaneous lesions in hawaiian crows (corvus hawaiiensis) examined in 1994 and a third from a biopsy obtained in 1992 from an infected bird of the apapane species (himatione sanguinea) by inoculation of the chorioallantoic membranes (cam) of developing chicken embryos. the resulting proliferative cam lesions contained eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion bodies characteristic of pox virus infection. the pathogenicity of these three viruses in dome ... | 2000 | 10813603 |
| genetic structure along an elevational gradient in hawaiian honeycreepers reveals contrasting evolutionary responses to avian malaria. | the hawaiian honeycreepers (drepanidinae) are one of the best-known examples of an adaptive radiation, but their persistence today is threatened by the introduction of exotic pathogens and their vector, the mosquito culex quinquefasciatus. historically, species such as the amakihi (hemignathus virens), the apapane (himatione sanguinea), and the iiwi (vestiaria coccinea) were found from the coastal lowlands to the high elevation forests, but by the late 1800's they had become extremely rare in ha ... | 2008 | 19014596 |
| next-generation sequencing reveals cryptic mtdna diversity of plasmodium relictum in the hawaiian islands. | next-generation 454 sequencing techniques were used to re-examine diversity of mitochondrial cytochrome b lineages of avian malaria (plasmodium relictum) in hawaii. we document a minimum of 23 variant lineages of the parasite based on single nucleotide transitional changes, in addition to the previously reported single lineage (grw4). a new, publicly available portal (integroomer) was developed for initial parsing of 454 datasets. mean variant prevalence and frequency was higher in low elevation ... | 2013 | 23953131 |