| checklist, host index, and annotated bibliography of plasmodium from reptiles. | world literature on plasmodium of squamate reptiles (1909-1975) includes 156 published accounts on 54 valid species and subspecies. africa: 30 reports on 9 species; australia, asia & oceania: 12 reports on 6 species and 2 subspecies; americas: 116 reports on 37 species. more than half of these reports and new species descriptions appeared during the last 10 years. most concern plasmodia in lizards of the neotropics, georgia (plasmodium floridense, a neotropical-caribbean parasite) and california ... | 1978 | 351178 |
| sporogony, development and ultrastructure of plasmodium floridense in culex erraticus. | | 1988 | 3192344 |
| vector incrimination and experimental transmission of plasmodium floridense by bites of infected culex (melanoconion) erraticus. | a survey of mosquitoes which are attracted to and readily feed upon lizards in a northcentral florida area where there is a relatively high prevalence of plasmodium floridense in anolis carolinensis was conducted. culex erraticus and cx. territans, collected in lizard-baited traps, readily fed on lizards in the traps and in the laboratory, and the former mosquito species is an experimental vector of plasmodium floridense. sporozoites were observed in the salivary glands from 11 to 14 days at 21- ... | 1987 | 3504906 |
| molecular differentiation of two new world saurian plasmodium species in different host species using the polymerase chain reaction. | several isolates of plasmodium floridense obtained from naturally infected anolis carolinensis and anolis sagrei, and 2 isolates of plasmodium chiricahuae obtained from sceloporus jarrovi were characterized at the ribosomal dna (rdna) locus using the polymerase chain reaction and agarose gel electrophoresis. enzymatic amplification of the rdna locus from both plasmodium species resulted in the generation of a 590-base pair (bp) dna fragment. the results obtained with all isolates of p. floridens ... | 1996 | 8604124 |
| distribution and abundance of two malarial parasites of the endemic anolis lizard of saba island, netherlands antilles. | the ecology of 2 parasites, plasmodium floridense and plasmodium azurophilum, was studied in the endemic lizard, anolis sabanus, on saba island in the eastern caribbean. prevalence of the two parasite species was similar, but prevalence varied among sites. lowest prevalence occurred at dry, windy sites or cool, wet mountain peaks (0-20%); the parasites were more common at most other locations on the island (40-80% infected; overall prevalence = 47%). high and low prevalence sites sometimes were ... | 1996 | 8636844 |
| prevalence of malaria parasites (plasmodium floridense and plasmodium azurophilum) infecting a puerto rican lizard (anolis gundlachi): a nine-year study. | the prevalence of malaria parasites was studied in the lizard anolis gundlachi over a 9-yr period at a site in the wet evergreen forest of eastern puerto rico. three forms of the parasite infected the lizards; these were plasmodium floridense, plasmodium azurophilum in erythrocytes, and p. azurophilum in white blood cells. overall prevalence of infection for 8 samples during the study period was significantly higher for males than females (32% of 3,296 males and 22% of 1,439 females). during the ... | 2000 | 10864248 |
| observations on the natural occurrence of plasmodium floridense, a saurian malaria parasite, in sceloporus undulatus undulatus. | | 1951 | 14824938 |
| the course of natural and induced infections of plasmodium floridense thompson and huff in sceloporus undulatus undulatus (latreille). | | 1952 | 14952700 |
| patterns of infection of the lizard malaria parasite, plasmodium floridense, in invasive brown anoles (anolis sagrei) in southwestern florida. | plasmodium floridense is a saurian malaria parasite common in the anolis lizards of the northern caribbean islands and the se usa. in the latter area, it is found in two native lizards (sceloporus undulatus and anolis carolinensis) and in the introduced anolis sagrei, which is native to cuba. we measured parasite prevalence and parasitemia in the introduced anole at a single site in north port, florida over 5 years. prevalence, based on microscopic examination of blood smears, was high year-roun ... | 2009 | 19085004 |
| the effects of atabrine on the saurian malarial parasite, plasmodium floridense. | | 1946 | 20278398 |
| tree-based delimitation of morphologically ambiguous taxa: a study of the lizard malaria parasites on the caribbean island of hispaniola. | malaria parasites in the genus plasmodium have been classified primarily on the basis of differences in morphology. these single-celled organisms often lack distinguishing morphological features, and this can encumber both species delimitation and identification. six saurian malaria parasites have been described from the caribbean island of hispaniola. all six infect lizards in the genus anolis, but only two of these parasites can be distinguished using morphology. the remaining four species ove ... | 2011 | 21718698 |
| clonal reproduction shapes evolution in the lizard malaria parasite plasmodium floridense. | the preponderant clonal evolution hypothesis (pce) predicts that frequent clonal reproduction (sex between two clones) in many pathogens capable of sexual recombination results in strong linkage disequilibrium and the presence of discrete genetic subdivisions characterized by occasional gene flow. we expand on the pce and predict that higher rates of clonal reproduction will result in: (1) morphologically cryptic species that exhibit (2) low within-species variation and (3) recent between-specie ... | 2015 | 25959003 |