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Vaidas Palinauskas

Vaidas Palinauskas

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
41
Citations
5262
World Ranking
1113
National Ranking
3

Overview

Vaidas Palinauskas is affiliated with the Nature Research Centre in Lithuania, focusing on research that intersects immunology, microbiology, and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans key subfields such as parasitology, ecology, insect science, infectious diseases, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

They have contributed extensively to topics including bird parasitology and diseases, vector-borne infectious diseases, viral infections and vectors, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, vector-borne animal diseases, avian ecology and behavior, and microbial infections and disease research.

Their recent scientific papers include:

  • Vector microbiota manipulation by host antibodies: the forgotten strategy to develop transmission-blocking vaccines, 2022, Parasites & Vectors
  • Anti-Microbiota Vaccine Reduces Avian Malaria Infection Within Mosquito Vectors, 2022, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Host Transcriptional Responses to High- and Low-Virulent Avian Malaria Parasites, 2020, The American Naturalist
  • Culicoides biting midges involved in transmission of haemoproteids, 2021, Parasites & Vectors
  • Multi-decadal improvements in the ecological quality of European rivers are not consistently reflected in biodiversity metrics, 2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Vaidas Palinauskas frequently publishes in several venues, with multiple works appearing in:

  • Parasites & Vectors
  • Microorganisms
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Malaria Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist collaborates regularly with coauthors including Justé Aželytė, Rita Žiegytė, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz, Elena Platonova, and Dasiel Obregón, evidencing a network of research partnerships centered around parasitology and vector-borne disease research.

Best Publications

  • Diptera vectors of avian Haemosporidian parasites: untangling parasite life cycles and their taxonomy

    Diego Santiago-Alarcon;Vaidas Palinauskas;Hinrich Martin Schaefer

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

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

  • Chronic malaria infections increase family inequalities and reduce parental fitness: experimental evidence from a wild bird population.

    S. C. L. Knowles;S. C. L. Knowles;V. Palinauskas;B. C. Sheldon

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Comparison of mitochondrial cytochrome b lineages and morphospecies of two avian malaria parasites of the subgenera Haemamoeba and Giovannolaia (Haemosporida: Plasmodiidae)

    Vaidas Palinauskas;Vlad Kosarev;Anatoly Shapoval;Staffan Bensch

  • 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

  • Plasmodium spp.: An experimental study on vertebrate host susceptibility to avian malaria

    Dimitar Dimitrov;Vaidas Palinauskas;Tatjana A Iezhova;Rasa Bernotienė

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

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

  • The Avian Transcriptome Response to Malaria Infection

    Elin Videvall;Charlie K. Cornwallis;Vaidas Palinauskas;Gediminas Valkiūnas

  • Description of the first cryptic avian malaria parasite, Plasmodium homocircumflexum n. sp., with experimental data on its virulence and development in avian hosts and mosquitoes

    Vaidas Palinauskas;Rita Žiegytė;Mikas Ilgūnas;Tatjana A. Iezhova

  • Plasmodium relictum (lineage P-SGS1): Further observation of effects on experimentally infected passeriform birds, with remarks on treatment with Malarone.

    Vaidas Palinauskas;Gediminas Valkiunas;Asta Krizanauskiene;Staffan Bensch

  • Mortality and pathology in birds due to Plasmodium (Giovannolaia) homocircumflexum infection, with emphasis on the exoerythrocytic development of avian malaria parasites

    Mikas Ilgūnas;Dovilė Bukauskaitė;Vaidas Palinauskas;Tatjana A. Iezhova

  • Individual Oocysts of Isospora (Apicomplexa: Coccidia) Parasites From Avian Feces: From Photo to Sequence

    Olga V. Dolnik;Vaidas Palinauskas;Staffan Bensch

  • A New Morphologically Distinct Avian Malaria Parasite That Fails Detection By Established Polymerase Chain Reaction–Based Protocols for Amplification of the Cytochrome B Gene

    Pavel Zehtindjiev;Asta Križanauskienė;Staffan Bensch;Vaidas Palinauskas

  • Plasmodium relictum (lineages pSGS1 and pGRW11): Complete synchronous sporogony in mosquitoes Culex pipiens pipiens

    Rita Kazlauskienė;Rasa Bernotienė;Vaidas Palinauskas;Tatjana A. Iezhova

  • The genome of Haemoproteus tartakovskyi and its relationship to human malaria parasites

    Staffan Bensch;Björn Canbäck;Jeremy D. DeBarry;Tomas Johansson

  • Parallel telomere shortening in multiple body tissues owing to malaria infection.

    Muhammad Asghar;Vaidas Palinauskas;Nadège Zaghdoudi-Allan;Gediminas Valkiūnas

Frequent Co-Authors

Gediminas Valkiūnas
Gediminas Valkiūnas Nature Research Centre
Tatjana A. Iezhova
Tatjana A. Iezhova Nature Research Centre
Staffan Bensch
Staffan Bensch Lund University
Alfonso Marzal
Alfonso Marzal University of Extremadura
Ravinder N. M. Sehgal
Ravinder N. M. Sehgal San Francisco State University
Lynn B. Martin
Lynn B. Martin University of South Florida
Robert E. Ricklefs
Robert E. Ricklefs University of Missouri–St. Louis
Herbert Weissenböck
Herbert Weissenböck University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Stephen S. Moore
Stephen S. Moore University of Queensland
Javier Pérez-Tris
Javier Pérez-Tris Complutense University of Madrid

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