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Do mosquitoes filter the access of Plasmodium cytochrome b lineages to an avian host?
Molecular ecology - 1 May 2008
Gager Andrea B, Del Rosario Loaiza José, Dearborn Donald C, Bermingham Eldredge
Abstract excerpt
Many parasites show fidelity to a set of hosts in ecological time but not evolutionary time and the determinants of this pattern are poorly understood. Malarial parasites use vertebrate hosts for the asexual stage of their life cycle but use Dipteran hosts for the sexual stage. Despite the potential evolutionary importance of Dipteran hosts, little is known of their role in determining a parasite's access to...
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