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type: software
license: GPL-2.0-only
title: 'malaviR: An R interface to MalAvi'
version: 1.0.0
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.malaviR
abstract: Functions for working with data from the MalAvi database of avian haemosporidian
  parasites.
authors:
- family-names: Ellis
  given-names: Vincenzo A
  email: vaellis@udel.edu
- family-names: Bensch
  given-names: Staffan
  email: staffan.bensch@biol.lu.se
- family-names: Canback
  given-names: Bjorn
  email: bjorn.canback@biol.lu.se
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'malaviR: An R interface to MalAvi'
  authors:
  - family-names: Ellis
    given-names: Vincenzo A.
  - family-names: Bensch
    given-names: Staffan
    email: staffan.bensch@biol.lu.se
  - family-names: Canback
    given-names: Bjorn
    email: bjorn.canback@biol.lu.se
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 1.0.0
  url: https://github.com/vincenzoaellis/malaviR
repository: https://vincenzoaellis.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/vincenzoaellis/malaviR
commit: b9d3de84d102a6ba5c58cf7f1fb3986ad5173051
url: https://github.com/vincenzoaellis/malaviR
date-released: '2026-06-08'
contact:
- family-names: Ellis
  given-names: Vincenzo A
  email: vaellis@udel.edu
references:
- type: article
  title: Host specificity of avian haemosporidian parasites is unrelated among sister
    lineages but shows phylogenetic signal across larger clades
  authors:
  - family-names: Ellis
    given-names: Vincenzo A.
  - family-names: Bensch
    given-names: Staffan
  journal: International Journal for Parasitology
  year: '2018'
  volume: '48'
  doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2018.05.005
  start: '897'
  end: '902'
- type: article
  title: 'MalAvi: a public database of malaria parasites and related haemosporidians
    in avian hosts based on mitochondrial cytochrome b lineages'
  authors:
  - family-names: Bensch
    given-names: Staffan
  - family-names: Hellgren
    given-names: Olof
  - family-names: Perez-Tris
    given-names: Javier
  journal: Molecular Ecology Resources
  year: '2009'
  volume: '9'
  doi: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02692.x
  start: '1353'
  end: '1358'