Blood parasite infections in a wild population of ravens (Corvus corax) in Bulgaria

Malaria Journal

Table 1 Summary of haemosporidian parasite lineages detected in ravens in Bulgaria (n = 86)

GenBank no.	Lineage name	Nr infected	% prevalence	Closest BLAST hit	% match
Plasmodium lineages
AF495571	SGS1	30	34.8
DQ368381	GRW06	4	4.7
AY831748	GRW11	3	3.5
AY831749	SYAT24	3	3.5
DQ847258	PBPIP	1	1.2
Total Plasmodium		41	47.7
Haemoproteus lineages
CIRCUM05		1	1.2
GAGLA05		1	1.2
Total Haemoproteus		2	2.3
Leucocytozoon lineages
MG209762	CCORAX1	8	9.3	COCOR16	99.6
KJ128991	COCOR13	7	8.1
MG209765	CCORAX4	2	2.3	COCOR16	99.4
JX867111	COCOR02	1	1.2
JX867112	COCOR03	1	1.2
KY768841	PICPIC01	1	1.2
KJ488810	GAGLA06	1	1.2
JX507218	EUSE1	1	1.2
MG209763	CCORAX2	1	1.2	GAGLA06	99.8
MG209764	CCORAX3	1	1.2	COCOR02	97.9
MG209766	CCORAX5	1	1.2	COCOR09	99.8
MG209767	CCORAX6	1	1.2	COCOR16	99.0
MG209768	CCORAX7	1	1.2	CORMAC06	99.8
Total Leucocytozoon		27	31.4
Total infected		54	62.8
Not infected		32	37.2

For lineages described for the first time in this study closest BLAST hit to any lineage from the MalAvi database and % similarity are indicated

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