TABLE 1.
Prevalence of haemosporidian lineages detected in great tits and blue tits in our study population
| Lineage | Morphospecies | Great tits (443) | Blue tits (529) | Z‐test | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | As % | Count | As % | z | p | |||
| Haemoproteus | PARUS1 | H. majoris | 20 | 4.5% | 34 | 6.4% | −1.30 | 0.19 |
| WW2 | H. majoris | 10 | 2.3% | 3 | <1% | 2.28 | 0.02 | |
| PHSIB1 | H. majoris | 1 | <1% | 0 | 0% | 1.09 | 1.73 | |
| H. majoris | — | 31 | 7% | 37 | 7% | 0.002 | 1.001 | |
| Total | — | 31 | 7% | 37 | 7% | 0.002 | 1.001 | |
| Plasmodium | TURDUS1 | P. circumflexum | 3 | <1% | 3 | <1% | 0.22 | 1.17 |
| BT7 | P. circumflexum | 0 | 0% | 1 | <1% | −0.92 | 0.36 | |
| GRW11 | P. relictum | 7 | 1.6% | 9 | 1.7% | −0.15 | 0.88 | |
| SGS1 | P. relictum | 82 | 18.5% | 43 | 8.1% | 4.82 | <0.001 | |
| P. relictum | — | 138 | 31.2% | 79 | 14.9% | 6.05 | <0.001 | |
| Total | — | 141 | 31.6% | 83 | 15.5% | 5.95 | <0.001 | |
| Leucocytozoon | PARUS20 | — | 26 | 5.9% | 17 | 3.2% | 2.01 | 0.04 |
| PARUS21 | — | 2 | <1% | 1 | <1% | 0.73 | 1.54 | |
| PARUS22 | — | 289 | 65.2% | 101 | 19.1% | 14.62 | <0.001 | |
| PARUS89* | ‐ | 1 | <1% | 1 | <1% | 0.13 | 1.1 | |
| PARUS90* | — | 3 | <1% | 2 | <1% | 0.65 | 1.48 | |
| Group A | — | 311 | 70.2% | 121 | 22.9% | 14.79 | <0.001 | |
| PARUS19 | — | 2 | <1% | 1 | <1% | 0.73 | 1.54 | |
| PARUS25 | — | 5 | <1% | 3 | <1% | 0.97 | 1.67 | |
| PARUS74 | — | 0 | 0% | 1 | <1% | −0.97 | 0.36 | |
| Group B | — | 65 | 14.7% | 14 | 2.6% | 6.83 | <0.001 | |
| PARUS4 | — | 2 | <1% | 5 | <1% | −0.91 | 0.36 | |
| PARUS16 | — | 117 | 26.4% | 1 | <1% | 12.47 | <0.001 | |
| PARUS17 | — | 7 | 1.6% | 0 | 0% | 2.9 | 0.04 | |
| PARUS18 | — | 9 | 2.0% | 13 | 2.5% | −0.44 | 0.66 | |
| PARUS33 | — | 9 | 2.0% | 2 | <1% | 2.42 | 0.02 | |
| PERATE06 | — | 1 | <1% | 3 | <1% | −0.83 | 0.41 | |
| Group C | — | 300 | 67.7% | 157 | 29.7% | 11.83 | <0.001 | |
| PARUS11 | — | 2 | <1% | 9 | 1.7% | −1.83 | 0.07 | |
| PARUS12 | — | 0 | 0% | 17 | 3.2% | −3.81 | <0.001 | |
| PARUS13 | — | 1 | <1% | 79 | 14.9% | −8.31 | <0.001 | |
| PARUS14 | — | 1 | <1% | 115 | 21.7% | −10.3 | <0.001 | |
| PARUS15 | — | 3 | <1% | 14 | 2.6% | −2.33 | 0.02 | |
| PARUS87 | — | 0 | 0% | 1 | <1% | −0.92 | 0.36 | |
| Group D | — | 15 | 3.4% | 392 | 78.4% | −22.26 | <0.001 | |
| Total | — | 418 | 94.4% | 500 | 94.5% | −0.11 | 0.91 | |
Lineage names were identified using MalAvi (Bensch et al., 2009). “Count” refers to the total number of infections by that lineage or clade. “As %” provides the prevalence of that lineage or clade in each host species. Two novel lineages are indicated with an asterisk and italicized. For classifications in bold we provide totals including infections that were not identified to lineage, but which could be classified as belonging to that group, species, or genera. Significant z values in bold reflect host‐specific differences in parasites prevalence, shading indicates the more common host species; yellow for great tits, blue for blue tits.