| molecular and morphological characterization of two avian malaria parasites (haemosporida: plasmodiidae), with description of plasmodium homonucleophilum n. sp. | plasmodium hoionucleophilum n. sp. was described from the common grasshopper warbler locustella naevia based on the morphology of blood stages and partial sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b (cyt b) gene. this malaria parasite belongs to the subgenus novyella; it can be readily distinguished from all described novyella parasites due to two features, i. e. the strict adherence of its meronts to the nuclei of infected erythrocytes and the lack of such adherence in the case of gametocytes. ... | 2013 | 26217836 |