title: First record of avian Plasmodium DNA from mosquitoes collected in the Yaeyama Archipelago, southwestern border of Japan.
abstract: We studied the prevalence of avian Plasmodium in 509 mosquitoes of 9 species collected from the Ishigaki and Iriomote islands in the Yaeyama Archipelago, located southwest from the mainland of Japan. Two identical avian Plasmodium lineages were detected from Culex (Culiciomyia) nigropunctatus. Detected lineages were phylogenetically classified into different clade to avian Plasmodium lineages from birds and mosquitoes in the mainland of Japan but identical to a lineage detected from a resident bird, White-breasted Waterken (Amaurornis phoenicurus). This is the first detection of avian Plasmodium DNA from mosquitoes in the Yaeyama Archipelago and suggested that resident birds might have been infected with an avian Plasmodium lineage specific to the studied area and C. nigropunctatus could be the candidate vector mosquito species.
authors: Laboratory of Biomedical Science, Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Fujisawa252–0880, Japan.
authors: Hiroko
authors: H
authors: Ejiri
authors: Yukita
authors: Y
authors: Sato
authors: Kyeong-Soon
authors: KS
authors: Kim
authors: Mikako
authors: M
authors: Tamashiro
authors: Yoshio
authors: Y
authors: Tsuda
authors: Takako
authors: T
authors: Toma
authors: Ichiro
authors: I
authors: Miyagi
authors: Koichi
authors: K
authors: Murata
authors: Masayoshi
authors: M
authors: Yukawa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001717:Birds; D003465:Culex / Q000469:parasitology*; D016054:DNA, Protozoan / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000469:parasitology*; D007564:Japan; D008289:Malaria, Avian / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000635:transmission; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D010961:Plasmodium / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D016054:DNA, Protozoan