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Parasites & Vectors
Survey of haemosporidian parasite infections in an endangered high alpine bird
Brief Report
Scott A. Taylor1  Angela N. Theodosopoulos1  Garth M. Spellman2 
[1] Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Box 334, Campus, Boulder, CO, USA;Department of Zoology, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, 2001 N Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO, USA;
关键词: Alpine specialist;    Brown-capped Rosy-Finch;    Haemoproteus;    Leucocytozoon;    Vector;   
DOI  :  10.1186/s13071-023-05667-7
 received in 2022-11-29, accepted in 2023-01-13,  发布年份 2023
来源: Springer
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【 摘 要 】

The Brown-capped Rosy-Finch is an endangered high alpine specialist that breeds on cliffs in the Rocky Mountains of North America. We know little about the parasites that infect these birds but filling this knowledge gap is important for understanding their population decline. The aim of this study was to survey haemosporidian parasite infections in Brown-capped Rosy-Finches. We sampled 104 Brown-capped Rosy-Finches during their breeding season at six sampling sites spanning the Colorado Rocky Mountains where they are nearly endemic. We used nested PCR methods to screen birds for parasite infections, and Sanger sequencing data were used to identify parasite lineages. Four of the sampling sites had birds with infections. Females were more often infected than males (prevalence = 15.6% and 9.7%, respectively). We observed twice as many infected birds sampled in July compared to birds sampled in June (prevalence = 12.5% and 6.25%, respectively). The percent of infected birds by sampling site ranged from 0 to over 20%. In total we identified eight different genetic lineages of haemosporidian parasites infecting Brown-capped Rosy-Finches—seven were in the genus Leucocytozoon, and one was in the genus Haemoproteus. Network analysis clearly separates Haemoproteus from Leucocytozoon, with Leucocytozoon lineages comprising two major clusters. Based on reports made to the MalAvi database, all lineages in Cluster 1 have the same reported insect vector, Simulium silvestre. We report that Brown-capped Rosy-Finches experience infections with haemosporidian parasites and that the percentage of infected birds differed markedly between sampling sites. We hypothesize that vector ecology and associated variation in climate at sampling sites explain our observations.

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© The Author(s) 2023

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