Pocket gophers and chewing lice: A test of the maternal transmission hypothesis

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1065-1069

  Demastes, J W ^a,b   Hafner, M S ^a   Hafner, D J ^a   Spradling, T A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Natural History Museum   (United States)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Geomyidae; MtDNA; Parasite; RFLP; Trichodectidae

Indexed keywords

CHEWING LOUSE; DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PARASITISM; PATHOGENICITY; POCKET GOPHER;

ANIMALS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ELECTROPHORESIS, STARCH GEL; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LICE INFESTATIONS; MALLOPHAGA; NEW MEXICO; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA;

GEOMYIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; PHTHIRAPTERA; TRICHODECTIDAE;

EID: 0032146764     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00383.x     Document Type: Article

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