The Host-Restriction of Haemoproteus sp. indet. of the Wood-Pigeon Columba p. palumbus |
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| Authors: | J R BAKER |
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| Institution: | Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, W.C. 1, England |
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| Abstract: | SYNOPSIS. Earlier experiments suggested that the species of Haemoproteus which infects English wood-pigeons ( Columba p. palumbus ) and is transmitted by the hippoboscid dipteran fly Ornithomya avicularia , was unable to infect Columba livia domestica , a host of H. columbae . This has now been confirmed by the injection of sporozoites into two pairs of pigeons, one of each species; in both experiments the C. palubus developed parasitemia while the C. livia did not. It has also been shown that this species of Haemoproteus can complete sporogony in a small proportion (2/73) of Pseudolynchla canariensis , the vector of H. columbae . |
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