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Chewing lice from wild birds in northern Greece
Parasitology International, 2017Greece represents an important area for wild birds due to its geographical position and habitat diversity. Although the bird species in Greece are well recorded, the information about the chewing lice that infest them is practically non-existent. Thus, the aim of the present study was to record the species of lice infesting wild birds in northern ...
Anastasia Diakou +2 more
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Population Dynamics of Chewing Lice (Phthiraptera) Infesting Birds (Aves)
Annual Review of Entomology, 2021In the past 25 years, studies on interactions between chewing lice and their bird hosts have increased notably. This body of work reveals that sampling of live avian hosts, collection of the lice, and the aggregated distributions of louse infestations pose challenges for assessing louse populations.
Terry D, Galloway, Robert J, Lamb
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Cospeciation of Pocket Gophers (Geomys) and their Chewing Lice (Geomydoecus)
Journal of Mammalogy, 1993Comparison of independently derived phylogenies for pocket gophers ( Geomys ) and their chewing lice ( Geomydoecus ) from Texas and Louisiana indicates a history of widespread cospeciation in this host-parasite assemblage. Inference of cospeciation is supported by statistical comparison of genetic-distance matrices for gophers and lice based on ...
James W Demastes +2 more
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2016
Lice are obligatory, permanent parasitic insects belonging to order Phthiraptera, which have a developed proboscis to suck blood from capillaries (suborder Anoplura) of mammals, or chewing mouth pieces, adapted to eat hairs and feathers, and sometimes also the skin and blood of birds and mammals (suborders Amblycera, Ischnocera, and Rhynchophthirina ...
Carlos Brisola Marcondes +1 more
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Lice are obligatory, permanent parasitic insects belonging to order Phthiraptera, which have a developed proboscis to suck blood from capillaries (suborder Anoplura) of mammals, or chewing mouth pieces, adapted to eat hairs and feathers, and sometimes also the skin and blood of birds and mammals (suborders Amblycera, Ischnocera, and Rhynchophthirina ...
Carlos Brisola Marcondes +1 more
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Feather-chewing lice and Tree Swallow biology
The Auk, 2015ABSTRACT Feather-chewing lice (Order Phthiraptera, Suborder Ischnocera) commonly infest birds and may affect their survival and reproduction. From 1993 to 2005, we examined several aspects of the biology of breeding Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) potentially associated with holes in wing and tail feathers caused by feather-chewing lice.
Michael P. Lombardo +5 more
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Distribution of Chewing Lice upon the Polygynous Peacock Pavo cristatus
The Journal of Parasitology, 1996An opportunistic survey of louse distribution upon the peacock Pavo cristatus was undertaken following a cull of 23 birds from an English zoo. After complete skin and feather dissolution, 2 species of lice were retrieved, Goniodes pavonis and Amyrsidea minuta. The distribution of both louse species could be described by a negative binomial model.
I R, Stewart, F, Clark, M, Petrie
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Chewing lice (Phthiraptera) from wild birds in southern Portugal
Parasitology International, 2016This study was carried out to determine chewing louse species of wild birds in the Ria Formosa Natural Park, located in southern Portugal. In addition, the hypothesis that bird age, avian migration and social behaviour have an impact on the louse prevalence was tested.
André, Tomás +3 more
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Pocket gophers and chewing lice: a test of the maternal transmission hypothesis
Molecular Ecology, 1998The life‐history traits of pocket gophers and their chewing lice suggest that there is little opportunity for transmission of parasites among pocket gophers, with the exception of transmission from mother to offspring. Herein, we test the hypothesis that lice are transmitted maternally by using an indirect approach that compares the distribution of ...
J W, Demastes +3 more
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Stem chewing lice on Cretaceous feathers preserved in amber
Current BiologyPhthirapteran lice (true lice or parasitic lice) are a major group of ectoparasitic insects living on their bird or mammal hosts during their entire life cycle.1 Due to their highly specialized lifestyles, they are extremely poorly represented in fossil records.2 Molecular clock estimations have speculated extensively about the origin time of parasitic
Yanjie Zhang +8 more
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Critical Evaluation of Five Methods for Quantifying Chewing Lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera)
The Journal of Parasitology, 2001Five methods for estimating the abundance of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) were tested. To evaluate the methods, feral pigeons (Columba livia) and 2 species of ischnoceran lice were used. The fraction of lice removed by each method was compared, and least squares linear regression was used to determine how well each method predicted total ...
D H, Clayton, D M, Drown
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