MalAvi: a public database of malaria parasites and related haemosporidians in avian hosts based on mitochondrial cytochrome b lineages

Abstract Research in avian blood parasites has seen a remarkable increase since the introduction of polymerase chain reaction‐based methods for parasite identification. New data are revealing complex multihost–multiparasite systems which are difficult to understand without good knowledge of the host range and geographical distribution of the parasite lineages. However, such information is currently difficult to obtain from the literature, or from general repositories such as GenBank, mainly because (i) different research groups use different parasite lineage names, (ii) GenBank entries frequently refer only to the first host and locality at which each parasite was sampled, and (iii) different researchers use…

• SF
  Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas
• MD
  Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología