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Gediminas Valkiūnas

Gediminas Valkiūnas

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
67
Citations
13331
World Ranking
216
National Ranking
1

Overview

Gediminas Valkiūnas is affiliated with the Nature Research Centre in Lithuania and specializes in research related to parasitology, particularly bird parasitology and vector-borne infectious diseases. Their work spans multiple fields, including immunology and microbiology as well as medicine, with an emphasis on the study of infectious diseases and ecology.

The main topics covered by Valkiūnas's research include:

  • Bird parasitology and diseases
  • Vector-borne infectious diseases
  • Viral infections and vectors
  • Study of mite species
  • Malaria research and control
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Parasite biology and host interactions

Their contributions appear prominently in parasitology-related subfields such as parasitology proper, infectious diseases, ecology, and public health.

Frequently publishing in specialized journals, Valkiūnas's work has appeared multiple times in the following venues:

  • Malaria Journal
  • Acta Tropica
  • Animals
  • Parasitology
  • Parasites & Vectors

Prominent recent papers authored or co-authored by Valkiūnas include:

  • "Plasmodium asexual growth and sexual development in the haematopoietic niche of the host," 2020, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "Keys to the avian Haemoproteus parasites (Haemosporida, Haemoproteidae)," 2022, Malaria Journal
  • "Host Transcriptional Responses to High- and Low-Virulent Avian Malaria Parasites," 2020, The American Naturalist
  • "The buffy coat method: a tool for detection of blood parasites without staining procedures," 2020, Parasites & Vectors
  • "Insights into the Biology of Leucocytozoon Species (Haemosporida, Leucocytozoidae): Why Is There Slow Research Progress on Agents of Leucocytozoonosis?," 2023, Microorganisms

Valkiūnas collaborates regularly with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Tatjana A. Iezhova
  • Mikas Ilgūnas
  • Mélanie Duc
  • Josef Harl
  • Herbert Weißenböck

Best Publications

  • A comparative analysis of microscopy and PCR-based detection methods for blood parasites.

    Gediminas Valkiūnas;Tatjana A. Iezhova;Asta Križanauskienė;Vaidas Palinauskas

  • Plasmodium relictum (lineage P-SGS1): effects on experimentally infected passerine birds.

    Vaidas Palinauskas;Gediminas Valkiūnas;Casimir V. Bolshakov;Staffan Bensch

  • Diversity, loss, and gain of malaria parasites in a globally invasive bird

    Alfonso Marzal;Alfonso Marzal;Robert E Ricklefs;Gediminas Valkiūnas;Tamer Albayrak

  • Nested cytochrome B polymerase chain reaction diagnostics underestimate mixed infections of avian blood haemosporidian parasites: Microscopy is still essential

    Gediminas Valkiūnas;Staffan Bensch;Tatjana A. Iezhova;Asta Križanauskienė

  • Mode and Rate of Evolution of Haemosporidian Mitochondrial Genomes: Timing the Radiation of Avian Parasites

    Pacheco Ma;Matta Ne;Valkiunas G;Parker Pg

  • Dynamics of parasitemia of malaria parasites in a naturally and experimentally infected migratory songbird, the great reed warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus.

    Pavel Zehtindjiev;Mihaela Ilieva;Helena Westerdahl;Bengt Hansson

  • Exo-erythrocytic development of avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites.

    Gediminas Valkiūnas;Tatjana A. Iezhova

  • Keys to the avian malaria parasites.

    Gediminas Valkiūnas;Tatjana A. Iezhova

  • VARIATION IN HOST SPECIFICITY BETWEEN SPECIES OF AVIAN HEMOSPORIDIAN PARASITES: EVIDENCE FROM PARASITE MORPHOLOGY AND CYTOCHROME B GENE SEQUENCES

    Asta Križanauskienė;Olof Hellgren;Vladislav Kosarev;Leonid Sokolov

  • Prevalence and diversity patterns of avian blood parasites in degraded African rainforest habitats.

    Anthony Chasar;Anthony Chasar;Claire Loiseau;Claire Loiseau;Gediminas Valkiūnas;Tatjana Iezhova

  • Plasmodium relictum (lineage SGS1) and Plasmodium ashfordi (lineage GRW2): The effects of the co-infection on experimentally infected passerine birds

    Vaidas Palinauskas;Gediminas Valkiunas;Casimir V. Bolshakov;Staffan Bensch

  • Nonspecific patterns of vector, host and avian malaria parasite associations in a central African rainforest.

    Kevin Y Njabo;Anthony J. Cornel;Camille Bonneaud;Erin Toffelmier

  • Spatially explicit predictions of blood parasites in a widely distributed African rainforest bird

    R. N. M. Sehgal;W. Buermann;R. J. Harrigan;C. Bonneaud

  • Multiple Lineages of Avian Malaria Parasites (Plasmodium) in the Galapagos Islands and Evidence for Arrival via Migratory Birds

    I. I. Levin;P. Zwiers;S. L. Deem;E. A. Geest

  • Nested Cytochrome B Polymerase Chain Reaction Diagnostics Detect Sporozoites of Hemosporidian Parasites in Peripheral Blood of Naturally Infected Birds

    Gediminas Valkiūnas;Tatjana A. Iezhova;Claire Loiseau;Ravinder N. M. Sehgal

  • HAEMOSPORIDIAN BLOOD PARASITES IN EUROPEAN BIRDS OF PREY AND OWLS

    O. Krone;J. Waldenström;G. Valkiūnas;O. Lessow

  • Molecular characterization of five widespread avian haemosporidian parasites (Haemosporida), with perspectives on the PCR-based detection of haemosporidians in wildlife

    Gediminas Valkiūnas;Vaidas Palinauskas;Mikas Ilgūnas;Dovilė Bukauskaitė

  • Avian haemosporidian parasites (Haemosporida): A comparative analysis of different polymerase chain reaction assays in detection of mixed infections.

    Rasa Bernotienė;Vaidas Palinauskas;Tatjana Iezhova;Dovilė Murauskaitė

  • EVIDENCE FOR CRYPTIC SPECIATION OF LEUCOCYTOZOON SPP. (HAEMOSPORIDA, LEUCOCYTOZOIDAE) IN DIURNAL RAPTORS

    Ravinder N. M. Sehgal;Angus C. Hull;Nancy L. Anderson;Gediminas Valkiūnas

  • Spatial Variation of Haemosporidian Parasite Infection in African Rainforest Bird Species

    Claire Loiseau;Tatjana Iezhova;Gediminas Valkiūnas;Anthony Chasar

  • Abortive long-lasting sporogony of two Haemoproteus species (Haemosporida, Haemoproteidae) in the mosquito Ochlerotatus cantans , with perspectives on haemosporidian vector research

    Gediminas Valkiūnas;Rita Kazlauskienė;Rasa Bernotienė;Vaidas Palinauskas

  • Coquillettidia (Culicidae, Diptera) mosquitoes are natural vectors of avian malaria in Africa

    Kevin Y Njabo;Anthony J Cornel;Ravinder N M Sehgal;Claire Loiseau

  • Hippoboscid-transmitted Haemoproteus parasites (Haemosporida) infect Galapagos Pelecaniform birds: evidence from molecular and morphological studies, with a description of Haemoproteus iwa.

    Iris I. Levin;Gediminas Valkiūnas;Diego Santiago-Alarcon;Larisa Lee Cruz

  • A New Haemoproteus Species (Haemosporida: Haemoproteidae) from the Endemic Galapagos Dove Zenaida galapagoensis, with Remarks on the Parasite Distribution, Vectors, and Molecular Diagnostics

    Gediminas Valkiūnas;Diego Santiago-Alarcon;Iris I. Levin;Tatjana A. Iezhova

  • Effect of Haemoproteus belopolskyi (Haemosporida: Haemoproteidae) on Body Mass of the Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla

    Gediminas Valkiūnas;Tadas Z̆ic̆kus;Anatoly P. Shapoval;Tatjana A. Iezhova

Frequent Co-Authors

Tatjana A. Iezhova
Tatjana A. Iezhova Nature Research Centre
Vaidas Palinauskas
Vaidas Palinauskas Nature Research Centre
Staffan Bensch
Staffan Bensch Lund University
Ravinder N. M. Sehgal
Ravinder N. M. Sehgal San Francisco State University
Herbert Weissenböck
Herbert Weissenböck University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Robert E. Ricklefs
Robert E. Ricklefs University of Missouri–St. Louis
Javier Pérez-Tris
Javier Pérez-Tris Complutense University of Madrid
Carter T. Atkinson
Carter T. Atkinson United States Geological Survey
Alfonso Marzal
Alfonso Marzal University of Extremadura
Lisa A. Tell
Lisa A. Tell University of California, Davis

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