Avian haemosporidians in the cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) from central-western and southern Africa: High diversity and prevalence

• Cynthia M. Villar Couto,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde,Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

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• Graeme S. Cumming,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

  Affiliation Percy FitzPatrick Institute, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Gustavo A. Lacorte,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Ciências e Linguagens, Instituto Federal de Minas Gerais, Bambuí, MG, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6866-348X

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• Carlos Congrains,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde,Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

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• Rafael Izbicki,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Estatística, Centro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas,Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil

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• Erika Martins Braga,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

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• Cristiano D. Rocha,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde,Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

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• Emmanuel Moralez-Silva,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde,Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

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• Dominic A. W. Henry,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Percy FitzPatrick Institute, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Shiiwua A. Manu,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation A.P Leventis Ornithological Research Institute, Laminga, Jos, Nigeria

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• Jacinta Abalaka,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation A.P Leventis Ornithological Research Institute, Laminga, Jos, Nigeria

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• Aissa Regalla,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Instituto da Biodiversidade e das Áreas Protegidas (IBAP), Bissau, Rep. da Guiné-Bissau

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• Alfredo Simão da Silva,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Current address: Programme de l'UICN en Guinée-Bissau, Bissau, Rep. da Guiné-Bissau

  Affiliation Instituto da Biodiversidade e das Áreas Protegidas (IBAP), Bissau, Rep. da Guiné-Bissau

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• Moussa S. Diop,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation AfriWet Consultants, Dakar, Thiaroye, Senegal

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• Silvia N. Del Lama

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dsdl@ufscar.br

  Affiliation Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde,Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8920-3442

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