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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 +6 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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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.
Frank Clark +2 more
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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, Mark S. Hafner
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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 ...
James W. Demastes +3 more
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Chewing lice (Mallophaga: Insecta) of birds in the Central Ciscaucasia
Entomological Review, 2011Collections of 8805 individuals of chewing lice from wild and domestic fowl in the Central Ciscaucasia were processed. According to original and literary data, 102 species of Mallophaga are known from this territory; 15 of them were recorded for the first time. Most of all the chewing lice species known in the territory are parasites of passerine birds;
O. M. Lyakhova, B. C. Kotti
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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 ...
Devin M. Drown, Dale H. Clayton
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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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The chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera, Amblycera) of the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Parasitology International, 2018The Great Cormorant is a widespread bird species with almost worldwide distribution. Accordingly, its general biology has been investigated thoroughly. Less well known, however, are the chewing lice that live inside the plumage of this diving bird. We examined the two known species of Great Cormorant chewing lice, Eidmanniella pellucida (Rudow, 1869 ...
Jan Phillip Leitinger, Stefan Richter
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Genetic Differentiation in Sympatric Species of Chewing Lice (Mallophaga: Trichodectidae)
Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 1989Starch-gel electrophoresis was used to assess levels of genetic differentiation among populations representing four species of chewing lice ( Geomydoecus ). These species included representatives of the subgenera Geomydoecus and Thomomydoecus that coexist on individual pocket gophers ( Thomomys ).
Steven A. Nadler, Mark S. Hafner
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