Nela Dvořáková

TL;DR: Molecular data analysis from a broad geographic area and host spectrum and detailed morphological documentation of the included samples provide a reliable background for the unequivocal placement of new samples into the Hemolivia/ Hepatozoon complex.

TL;DR: The genus Haemogregarina has a low host specificity crossing the family level of its vertebrate hosts and that its distribution is likely to be linked to the vector and definitive host – the leech.

TL;DR: The incompleteness of the morphological data and relatively low host specificity provides the space for large synonymy within this taxon, so a complex approach combining microscopic analyses together with molecular-genetic methods should represent the basic standard for all taxonomic studies.

TL;DR: H. caucasica was detected in two tortoise species, Testudo graeca and Testudo horsfieldii, providing evidence that Haemoproteus is not strictly host‐specific to the tortoise host species.

TL;DR: This study provides the first sequence data of Trypanosoma species isolated from freshwater turtles from tropical Africa and extends knowledge on diversity of trypanosomes in the Afrotropical zoogeographical realm.