A descriptive-taxonomic study of two types of lice isolated from goats in the Basrah Governorate, Iraq [PDF]
Open Veterinary JournalBackground: Pediculosis is an infestation of warm-blooded animals, and it is an important economic problem for various livestock and poultry hosts. Lice are termed direct parasites because they produce skin imperfections at tanneries because of the ...
Suzan A. Al-Azizz +2 more
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Sucking lice in bandicoot rats with first complete description of Hoplopleura malabarica nymphs [PDF]
PeerJBackground Studies of insect biodiversity and parasitism are often based on adult stages, as immature stages are poorly known and often cannot be identified to species level.
Paulina Kozina +3 more
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Another piece of the puzzle: analysis of Acanthocheilonema spirocauda larvae from its presumed intermediate host the seal louse (Echinophthirius horridus) [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe transmission of the seal heartworm Acanthocheilonema spirocauda (Nematoda: Filarioidea) by the haematophagous seal louse Echinophthirius horridus (Anoplura: Echinophthiriidae) has been proposed for many decades, and several studies based on ...
Caroline Wilhelm +5 more
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The first description of the nymphal stages of Hoplopleura longula (Psocodea: Anoplura: Hoplopleuridae) from the harvest mouse Micromys minutus (Rodentia: Muridae) [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021 Despite the widespread belief that an extensive body of knowledge exists for the sucking lice Anoplura, some of their common, Eurasian or even cosmopolitan species still lack ordered taxonomic descriptions, especially those of their nymphal stages.
Paulina Kozina +2 more
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Evolutionary history of mammalian sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura)
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2010 Background Sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura) are obligate, permanent ectoparasites of eutherian mammals, parasitizing members of 12 of the 29 recognized mammalian orders and approximately 20% of all mammalian species.
Jessica E Light +2 more
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Nova especie de Anoplura: (Haematopinidae) [PDF]
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1932 Fabio Leoni Werneck
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Fur microbiome as a putative source of symbiotic bacteria in sucking lice [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSymbiosis between insects and bacteria has been established countless times. While it is well known that the symbionts originated from a variety of different bacterial taxa, it is usually difficult to determine their environmental source and a route of ...
Jana Martin Říhová +3 more
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Nota sobre Linognathus cervicaprae (Anoplura) [PDF]
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1944 Fabio Leoni Werneck
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Юг России: экология, развитие, 2021 Aim of this work is to substantiate the hypothesis that the absence of lice in bats is associated with the electrification of the surface of their body during the flight.Discussion.
E. M. Shchelkanov
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Crab Louse, Pthirus pubis (Linnaeus) (Insecta: Phthiraptera (Anoplura): Pediculidae)
EDIS, 2002 This document is EENY-103, one of a series of the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date July 1999. Reviewed May 2003.
H. V. Weems, Jr., Thomas R. Fasulo
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