To cite malaviR in publications, please cite the package and Ellis & Bensch (2018):

Ellis V, Bensch S, Canback B (2026). malaviR: An R interface to MalAvi. R package version 1.0.0, https://github.com/vincenzoaellis/malaviR.

Ellis V, Bensch S (2018). “Host specificity of avian haemosporidian parasites is unrelated among sister lineages but shows phylogenetic signal across larger clades.” International Journal for Parasitology, 48, 897–902. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2018.05.005.

Bensch S, Hellgren O, Perez-Tris J (2009). “MalAvi: a public database of malaria parasites and related haemosporidians in avian hosts based on mitochondrial cytochrome b lineages.” Molecular Ecology Resources, 9, 1353–1358. doi:10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02692.x.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {malaviR: An R interface to MalAvi},
    author = {Vincenzo A. Ellis and Staffan Bensch and Bjorn Canback},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 1.0.0},
    url = {https://github.com/vincenzoaellis/malaviR},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {Host specificity of avian haemosporidian parasites is
      unrelated among sister lineages but shows phylogenetic signal
      across larger clades},
    author = {Vincenzo A. Ellis and Staffan Bensch},
    journal = {International Journal for Parasitology},
    year = {2018},
    volume = {48},
    pages = {897--902},
    doi = {10.1016/j.ijpara.2018.05.005},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {MalAvi: a public database of malaria parasites and related
      haemosporidians in avian hosts based on mitochondrial cytochrome
      b lineages},
    author = {Staffan Bensch and Olof Hellgren and Javier Perez-Tris},
    journal = {Molecular Ecology Resources},
    year = {2009},
    volume = {9},
    pages = {1353--1358},
    doi = {10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02692.x},
  }