How well lice are able to latch onto pigeon flies and catch a lift to new bird hosts affects how the lice evolve. Lice species carried aloft by flies spread to more species and tend to speciate at ...
The CDC estimates six to 12 million head lice cases occur each year in children ages three to 11, but doctors say the stigma ...
Avian ectoparasites encompass a range of organisms – including lice, mites, fleas and dipteran flies – that live on the surface of birds. These parasites exhibit varying degrees of host specificity, ...
The results, published yesterday (May 23) online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest that the coevolution of hosts and parasites can be influenced by other species in the ...
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