Plasmodium Marchiafava & Celli 1885

• Main Authors: Chavatte, Jean-Marc, Grès, Virginie, Snounou, Georges, Chabaud, Alain, Landau, Irène
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Chromista; Miozoa; Eucoccidiida; Plasmodiidae; Plasmodium; Laird; Irène; Alauda arvensis
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5467663; https://zenodo.org/record/5467663

Genus Plasmodium Marchiafava & Celli, 1885 REMARKS All the Plasmodium parasites were found within erythrocytes, and except for a few rings none were seen in reticulocytes. The infected RBC were at times deformed, rounded or discoloured by certain parasites, but the deformability observed was not more pronounced than that observed in other birds such as the magpie (Chavatte et al. 2007) or the sparrow (Landau et al. 2003). On the other hand, the red blood cell nucleus was often slightly tilted even by parasites that did not truly displace it. For the known Plasmodium species, only the main characters are briefly described. Molecular biology studies (Martinsen et al . 2007) evidenced that some of the avian Plasmodium sub-genera created by Corradetti et al. (1963) are polyphyletic and until the situation is clarified we prefer not to use them. : Published as part of Chavatte, Jean-Marc, Grès, Virginie, Snounou, Georges, Chabaud, Alain & Landau, Irène, 2009, Plasmodium (Apicomplexa) of the skylark (Alauda arvensis), pp. 369-383 in Zoosystema 31 (2) on pages 371-372, DOI: 10.5252/z2009n2a8, http://zenodo.org/record/5391006 : {"references": ["CHAVATTE J. - M., CHIRON F., CHABAUD A. & LANDAU I. 2007. - Fidelisation du couple hote-vecteur, facteur probable de speciation: 14 especes de Plasmodium de la pie. Parasite 14 (1): 21 - 37.", "LANDAU I., CHABAUD A., BERTANI S. & SNOUNOU G. 2003. - Taxonomic status and re-description of Plasmodium relictum (Grassi et Feletti, 1891), Plasmodium maior, Raffaele, 1931 and description of P. bigueti n. sp. in sparrows. Parassitologia 45: 119 - 123.", "MARTINSEN E. S., WAITE J. L. & SCHALL J. J. 2007. - Morphologically defined subgenera of Plasmodium from avian hosts: test monophyly by phylogenetic analysis of two mitochondrial genes. Parasitology 134 (4): 483 - 490.", "CORRADETTI A., GARNHAM P. C. C. & LAIRD M. 1963. - New classification of the avian malaria parasites. Parassitologia 7: 180 - 187."]}