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Unusual double erythrocyte infection by heterogeneric parasites in the lacertid lizard Psammodromus algirus Megia Palma, Rodrigo Manuel Blázquez Castro, Sara Barrientos Yuste, Rafael 576.89 598.112 Coinfection Karyolysus Schellackia Psammodromus algirus Parasites Parasitología (Veterinaria) Reptiles 2401.12 Parasitología Animal 2401.16 Herpetología Funding: RM-P enjoys a postdoctoral contract (CEECIND/04084/2017) provided by the Instituto de Ciências, Tecnologias e Agroambiente da Universidade do Porto and Fundação da Ciência e Tecnologia. SB-C holds a contract by CAM and NextGenerationEU Funds (27-UAH-INV). The observation reported here is noteworthy because it represents a rare case of double heterogeneric (co)infection in a single host erythrocyte. The low frequency of these observations in the sample suggests that the co-occurrence of one Schellackia sporozoite and one Karyolysus gametocyte within a single host erythrocyte would not benefit either the parasites or the host. We conclude that it represents a stochastic event of single host cell coinfection. European Commission Comunidad de Madrid Instituto de Ciências, Tecnologias e Agroambiente da Universidade do Porto Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal) Depto. de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución Fac. de Ciencias Biológicas TRUE pub 2024-12-16T17:04:47Z 2024-12-16T17:04:47Z 2023 journal article VoR https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112694 2071-5773 eng Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access application/pdf Societas Europaea Herpetologica