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New Michigan Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) and Flea (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) Records From Colonial Nesting Birds [PDF]
, 2018 Banding and censusing large numbers of gull chicks over a 30-year period on Great Lakes islands has produced a collection of five individual ticks from two Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) chicks.
Scharf, William C
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Siphonaptera Records and Host Associations From the Central and Eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan [PDF]
, 2017 Fleas were collected from birds and mammals over a five year period in four upper peninsula counties. Identified specimens were compared to published records of distribution for the parasite species and its host species, and only those records which are ...
Allan, Thomas A +2 more
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Geographic Distribution of Siphonaptera Collected From Small Mammals on Lake Michigan Islands [PDF]
, 2017 The distribution of ten flea species collected from five small mammal host species on 13 Lake Michigan islands is described. Four new eastern and southern records for Hystrichopsylla dippiei Rothschild are given.
Scharf, William C
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DDO 68: A FLEA WITH SMALLER FLEAS THAT ON HIM PREY [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2016 ABSTRACT We present new photometry of the dwarf irregular galaxy DDO 68, one of the most metal-poor and least massive dwarfs, located in the Lynx-Cancer Void. The images were acquired with the Large Binocular Telescope in the g and r passbands and show unequivocally that DDO 68 has previously unknown stellar streams related to the ...
Diego Paris +11 more
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Tungiasis Infestation in Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2010 Tungiasis is caused by the jigger flea Tunga penetrans. We describe a case of severe infestation from Kigoma region, Western Tanzania. A 19-year-old male with epilepsy and mental disability presented with ulcerated and inflamed toes. Clinical examination
Behamana, Emmanuel +3 more
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Additional Siphonaptera Records From Small Mammals in the Central Upper Peninsula of Michigan [PDF]
, 2018 Fleas were collected from mammals during the period 1990-1992 in two upper peninsula counties. Identified specimens were compared to existing distribution records for both parasite and host. Only those records which are newly documented for county, upper
Lederle, Patrick E, Scharf, William C
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Nature, 1911 ARISTOTLE (H.A. viii. 605b) makes the following curious and perplexing statement:—πάντα δE τa Eντoµα άπoθνήσκeι Eλαιoνoeνα ήλiω θɛ. That is to say: “All insects die if they be smeared over with oil; and they die all the more rapidly if you smear their head with the oil and lay them out in the sun.” So Pliny, Albertus Magnus, and recent commentators ...
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Ectoparasites and Other Arthropod Associates of Some Voles and Shrews From the Catskill Mountains of New York [PDF]
, 2017 Reported here from the Catskill Mountains of New York are 30 ectoparasites and other associates from 39 smoky shrews, Sorex fumeus, 17 from 11 masked shrews, Sorex cinereus, 11 from eight long-tailed shrews, Sorex dispar, and 31 from 44 rock voles ...
French, Thomas W, Whitaker, John O, Jr.
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On the probability of dinosaur fleas [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2016 Recently, a set of publications described flea fossils from Jurassic and Early Cretaceous geological strata in northeastern China, which were suggested to have parasitized feathered dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and early birds or mammals. In support of these fossils being fleas, a recent publication in BMC Evolutionary Biology described the extended abdomen ...
Qiyun Zhu +4 more
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A Flea on Schrödinger’s Cat [PDF]
Foundations of Physics, 2013 We propose a technical reformulation of the measurement problem of quantum mechanics, which is based on the postulate that the final state of a measurement is classical; this accords with experimental practice as well as with Bohr's views. Unlike the usual formulation (in which the post-measurement state is a a unit vector in Hilbert space, such as ...
Robin Reuvers +2 more
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