Plasmodium papernai
Appearance
Plasmodium papernai is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Novyella.
Like all Plasmodium species P. papernai has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are birds.
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Description
The parasite was first described by Grès and Landau in 1997.[1]
References
- ^ Grès V. and Landau I. (1997) Les Plasmodium de Lophura (Phasianidae) : redescription de P. lophurae Coggeshall, 1938 et description de deux nouvelles espèces. Zoosystema 19 (4) 545-555