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Overview

Ravinder N. M. Sehgal is affiliated with San Francisco State University in the United States. Their research primarily covers the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, including Medicine, with a particular focus on parasitology and infectious diseases.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Vector-borne infectious diseases
  • Bird parasitology and diseases
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Study of Mite Species
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
  • Avian ecology and behavior

Sehgal has contributed to subfields such as Parasitology, Infectious Diseases, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Ecology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sehgal include:

  • Timoléon Tchuinkam
  • Luz García-Longoria
  • Alfonso Marzal
  • Lisa A. Tell
  • Scott William Roy

Their work has appeared mostly in the following publication venues:

  • Parasitology Research
  • PLoS ONE
  • International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Medical Entomology

Recent papers by Sehgal include:

  • Student-Authored Scientist Spotlights: Investigating the Impacts of Engaging Undergraduates as Developers of Inclusive Curriculum through a Service-Learning Course (2021), published in CBE-Life Sciences Education
  • A fatal case of a captive snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) with Haemoproteus infection in Japan (2020), published in Parasitology Research
  • Response of Understory Bird Feeding Groups to Deforestation Gradient in a Tropical Rainforest of Cameroon (2020), published in Tropical Conservation Science
  • Diversity and host assemblage of avian haemosporidians in different terrestrial ecoregions of Peru (2021), published in Current Zoology
  • TaqMan quantitative real-time PCR for detecting Avipoxvirus DNA in various sample types from hummingbirds (2020), published in PLoS ONE

Best Publications

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

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

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

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

  • A Comparative Analysis of PCR-Based Detection Methods for Avian Malaria

    F. Alexander Richard;Ravinder N. M. Sehgal;Hugh I. Jones;Thomas B. Smith;Thomas B. Smith

  • Manifold habitat effects on the prevalence and diversity of avian blood parasites.

    Ravinder N.M. Sehgal

  • 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

  • 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

  • Host and habitat specialization of avian malaria in Africa

    Claire Loiseau;Ryan J. Harrigan;Alexandre Robert;Rauri C. K. Bowie;Rauri C. K. Bowie

  • Host specificity and incidence of Trypanosoma in some African rainforest birds: a molecular approach

    Ravinder N. M. Sehgal;Hugh I. Jones;Thomas B. Smith;Thomas B. Smith

  • 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

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

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

  • Distribution, diversity and drivers of blood-borne parasite co-infections in Alaskan bird populations

    Khouanchy S. Oakgrove;Ryan J. Harrigan;Claire Loiseau;Sue Guers

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

    Claire Loiseau;Tatjana Iezhova;Gediminas Valkiūnas;Anthony Chasar

  • First evidence and predictions of Plasmodium transmission in Alaskan bird populations.

    Claire Loiseau;Ryan J. Harrigan;Anthony J. Cornel;Sue L. Guers

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

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

  • Expression of mRNA for the neurotrophin receptor trkC in neuroblastomas with favourable tumour stage and good prognosis.

    M Rydén;R Sehgal;C Dominici;FH Schilling

  • Parasite misidentifications in GenBank : how to minimize their number?

    Gediminas Valkiūnas;Carter T. Atkinson;Staffan Bensch;Ravinder N.M. Sehgal

  • Blood parasites in Owls with conservation implications for the Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis)

    Heather D. Ishak;John P. Dumbacher;John P. Dumbacher;Nancy L. Anderson;John J. Keane

  • Global phylogeography of the avian malaria pathogen Plasmodium relictum based on MSP1 allelic diversity

    Olof Hellgren;Carter T. Atkinson;Staffan Bensch;Tamer Albayrak

  • The prevalence of avian Plasmodium is higher in undisturbed tropical forests of Cameroon

    Camille Bonneaud;Irem Sepil;Borja Milá;Wolfgang Buermann

Frequent Co-Authors

Gediminas Valkiūnas
Gediminas Valkiūnas Nature Research Centre
Tatjana A. Iezhova
Tatjana A. Iezhova Nature Research Centre
Lisa A. Tell
Lisa A. Tell University of California, Davis
Staffan Bensch
Staffan Bensch Lund University
Alfonso Marzal
Alfonso Marzal University of Extremadura
Wolfgang Buermann
Wolfgang Buermann University of Augsburg
Vaidas Palinauskas
Vaidas Palinauskas Nature Research Centre
Rauri C. K. Bowie
Rauri C. K. Bowie University of California, Berkeley
Robert E. Ricklefs
Robert E. Ricklefs University of Missouri–St. Louis
Cagan H. Sekercioglu
Cagan H. Sekercioglu University of Utah

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