Cryptic host specificity of an avian skin mite (Epidermoptidae) vectored by louseflies (Hippoboscidae) associated with two endemic Galápagos bird species

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1218-1228

  Whiteman, Noah Kerness ^a   Sánchez, Pablo ^a,b   Merkel, Jane ^a,c   Klompen, Hans ^a,d   Parker, Patricia G ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^c SAINT LOUIS ZOO   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BIRD; CLADISTICS; CRYPSIS; DISEASE VECTOR; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENDOPARASITE; FLY; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MITE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RAPTOR; SEABIRD; SPECIALIST;

ALLOPATRY; ARTICLE; BIRD; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDERMOPTIDAE; GALAPAGOS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIPPOBOSCIDAE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; LOUSE; MITE; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; SYMPATRY;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; DIPTERA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECUADOR; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MITE INFESTATIONS; MITES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA;

ACARI; ACCIPITRINAE; AVES; BUTEO GALAPAGOENSIS; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HIPPOBOSCIDAE; ICOSTA NIGRA; MYIALGES; MYIALGES CAULOTOON; OLFERSIA SORDIDA; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX HARRISI;

EID: 33847005942     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-918R.1     Document Type: Article

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