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Table 2.

Prevalence and diversity of haemosporidian parasites recorded in Eurasian blackbirds (Turdus merula) and song thrushes (Turdus philomelos) by PCR screening

Host species	n Examined	PCR positive^a				Parasite species & cytb lineages^b
Host species	n Examined	Plas	Haem	Leuc	Total	Parasite species & cytb lineages^b
Turdus merula	277	166/32	12/4	13/11	179/35	P. matutinum LINN1 (91/26), AFTRU5 (4/1); P. vaughani SYAT05 (88/26); P. elongatum GRW06 (1); Plasmodium sp. *TUMER12* (2), *TUMER13* (1), *TUMER14* (1/1), *TUMER15* (1/1), *TUMER16* (1); H. minutus TURDUS2 (11/3), TUCHR01 (1/1), *TUMER17* (1/1); Leucocytozoon sp. TUMER01 (7/7), TUMER10 (1), ASOT06 (3/2), *AEFUN03* (1/1), *TUMER18* (1/1)
Turdus philomelos	29	11/2	3/2	4/4	15/5	P. matutinum LINN1 (8/2); P. vaughani SYAT05 (1); P. circumflexum TURDUS1 (1); Plasmodium sp. *TUPHI08* (1/1), *TUPHI09* (1); H. minutus TUPHI01 (3/2); Leucocytozoon sp. EUSE2 (2/2), TUPHI06 (1/1), *TUPHI10* (2/2), *TUPHI11* (1/1), *TUPHI12* (1/1)
Total	306	177/34	15/6	17/15	194/40	12 Plasmodium, 4 Haemoproteus, 10 Leucocytozoon lineages

^aNumbers indicate total infected birds, followed by number of mixed infections

^bNumbers in parentheses indicate total infected birds, followed by number of mixed infections. Lineages in bolditalic are new cytB haplotypes