List of works by Olof Hellgren

A cautionary note on the use of nested PCR for parasite screening--an example from avian blood parasites

scientific article published in April 2008

A jack-of-all-trades and still a master of some: prevalence and host range in avian malaria and related blood parasites

scientific article published in October 2009

A new PCR assay for simultaneous studies of Leucocytozoon, Plasmodium, and Haemoproteus from avian blood

scientific article published in August 2004

Allelic variation at innate immune genes (avian β-defensins), within a natural population of great tits

article

Avian migration and the distribution of malaria parasites in New World passerine birds

scholarly article by Robert Ricklefs et al published 18 December 2016 in Journal of Biogeography

Bird hosts, blood parasites and their vectors--associations uncovered by molecular analyses of blackfly blood meals.

scientific article published on 2 February 2008

Circannual variation in blood parasitism in a sub-Saharan migrant passerine bird, the garden warbler.

scientific article published in May 2013

De novo synthesis of thiamine (vitamin B1) is the ancestral state in Plasmodium parasites - evidence from avian haemosporidians

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

Detecting shifts of transmission areas in avian blood parasites: a phylogenetic approach

scientific article published on March 2007

Detecting transmission areas of malaria parasites in a migratory bird species

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

Diversity and phylogeny of mitochondrial cytochrome B lineages from six morphospecies of avian Haemoproteus (Haemosporida: Haemoproteidae).

scientific article published in August 2007

Diversity, loss, and gain of malaria parasites in a globally invasive bird ⬇️

scientific article

Environmental, geographical and time‐related impacts on avian malaria infections in native and introduced populations of house sparrows (<i>Passer domesticus</i>), a globally invasive species

scientific article published in 2023

Evolution of a cluster of innate immune genes (beta-defensins) along the ancestral lines of chicken and zebra finch.

scientific article

Feather mites and internal parasites in small ground finches (Geospiza fuliginosa, Emberizidae) from the Galapagos Islands (Equador).

scientific article published in February 2009

Genomic resources notes accepted 1 June 2013-31 July 2013.

scientific article published on 25 September 2013

Global phylogeography of the avian malaria pathogen Plasmodium relictum based on MSP1 allelic diversity

article

How can we determine the molecular clock of malaria parasites?

scientific article published on 03 May 2013

Identification and characterization of the merozoite surface protein 1 (msp1) gene in a host-generalist avian malaria parasite, Plasmodium relictum (lineages SGS1 and GRW4) with the use of blood transcriptome

scientific article

Immune gene expression in the mosquito vector <i>Culex quinquefasciatus</i> during an avian malaria infection

scientific article published in 2022

In vitro tests of natural allelic variation of innate immune genes (avian β-defensins) reveal functional differences in microbial inhibition.

scientific article published in December 2010

LINKAGE BETWEEN NUCLEAR AND MITOCHONDRIAL DNA SEQUENCES IN AVIAN MALARIA PARASITES: MULTIPLE CASES OF CRYPTIC SPECIATION?

scholarly article by Staffan Bensch et al published 2004 in Evolution

Linkage between mitochondrial cytochrome b lineages and morphospecies of two avian malaria parasites, with a description of Plasmodium (Novyella) ashfordi sp. nov.

scientific article

Linkage between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences in avian malaria parasites: multiple cases of cryptic speciation?

scientific article published in July 2004

Locus-specific protocol for nine different innate immune genes (antimicrobial peptides: β-defensins) across passerine bird species reveals within-species coding variation and a case of trans-species polymorphisms

scientific article (publication date: 15 February 2011)

Low MSP-1 haplotype diversity in the West Palearctic population of the avian malaria parasite Plasmodium relictum

scientific article published on 12 June 2021

Low haemosporidian diversity and one key-host species in a bird malaria community on a mid-Atlantic island (São Miguel, Azores).

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 9 April 2009

Migratory behavior of birds affects their coevolutionary relationship with blood parasites

scientific article published on 24 October 2011

Molecular identification of the chitinase genes in Plasmodium relictum

scientific article

Molecular phylogenetic analysis of circumnuclear hemoproteids (Haemosporida: Haemoproteidae) of sylviid birds, with a description of Haemoproteus parabelopolskyi sp. nov.

scientific article

Molecular phylogenetic and morphological analysis of haemosporidian parasites (Haemosporida) in a naturally infected European songbird, the blackcap Sylvia atricapilla, with description of Haemoproteus pallidulus sp. nov.

scientific article

Multiple cryptic species of sympatric generalists within the avian blood parasite Haemoproteus majoris

scientific article

Nested cytochrome b polymerase chain reaction diagnostics underestimate mixed infections of avian blood haemosporidian parasites: microscopy is still essential.

scientific article published in April 2006

Parallelism and historical contingency during rapid ecotype divergence in an isopod

scientific article published in May 2009

Population structure and migratory directions of Scandinavian bluethroatsLuscinia svecica- a molecular, morphological and stable isotope analysis

scientific article published in 2008

The Evolution of Innate Immune Genes: Purifying and Balancing Selection on β-Defensins in Waterfowl

scientific article published on 14 August 2016

The Genome of Haemoproteus tartakovskyi and Its Relationship to Human Malaria Parasites

scientific article

The Transcriptome of the Avian Malaria Parasite Plasmodium ashfordi Displays Host-Specific Gene Expression

article

The avian transcriptome response to malaria infection

scientific article

The epidemiology underlying age-related avian malaria infection in a long-lived host: the mute swanCygnus olor

scholarly article by Matt J. Wood et al published 30 April 2013 in Journal of Avian Biology

The genetic structure of Borrelia afzelii varies with geographic but not ecological sampling scale

scientific article published on 21 October 2010

The transcriptome of the avian malaria parasite Plasmodium ashfordi displays host-specific gene expression

scientific article

Variation in host specificity between species of avian hemosporidian parasites: evidence from parasite morphology and cytochrome B gene sequences.

scientific article published in December 2006

Vertebrate host specificity of wild-caught blackflies revealed by mitochondrial DNA in blood.

scientific article published in May 2004

What are malaria parasites?

scientific article published in May 2005

Within-host speciation of malaria parasites

scientific article published in 2007

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