Blood-sucking lice (Anoplura) of small mammals: True parasites

Kim, Ke Chung

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“…Polyplax arvicanthis has high specificity to Rhabdomys , a direct life cycle (Ledger ; Kim ) and high prevalence across the distribution (Table ; Matthee et al . , ).…”

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“…Contrary to the expectation that the female‐biased sex ratio (Matthee et al . ) and direct life cycle (Ledger ; Kim ) of Polyplax will promote smaller effective populations sizes compared with the host (Rannala & Michalakis ; Criscione & Blouin ; Huyse et al . ), our data indicates larger estimated mitochondrial effective population sizes for P. arvicanthis 1 and 2 when compared with Rhabdomys (Table ).…”

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“…The lower levels of divergence among parasite lineages (when compared with the hosts) may thus be partially explained by the larger effective population sizes of Polyplax counteracting the effects of the elevated mutation rates observed. Furthermore, despite the predicted low dispersal potential of P. arvicanthis due to its life history traits (Hopkins ; Kim ), the autocorrelation analyses indicated that the inferred levels of historical gene flow of the parasites (particularly over shorter distances) are more extensive or only slightly more restricted compared with the host (Fig. ).…”

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“…Sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura) are obligate and permanent parasites of eutherian mammals (Kim ), and these close associations provide interesting models for the study of parasite–host coevolution (Kim ; Reed et al . ; Light & Hafner ).…”

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Biogeography and host‐related factors trump parasite life history: limited congruence among the genetic structures of specific ectoparasitic lice and their rodent hosts

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Parasites and hosts interact across both micro- and macroevolutionary scales where congruence among their phylogeographic and phylogenetic structures may be observed. Within southern Africa, the four-striped mouse genus, Rhabdomys, is parasitized by the ectoparasitic sucking louse, Polyplax arvicanthis. Molecular data recently suggested the presence of two cryptic species within P. arvicanthis that are sympatrically distributed across the distributions of four putative Rhabdomys species. We tested the hypotheses of phylogeographic congruence and cophylogeny among the two parasite lineages and the four host taxa, utilizing mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data. Despite the documented host-specificity of P. arvicanthis, limited phylogeographic correspondence and nonsignificant cophylogeny was observed. Instead, the parasite-host evolutionary history is characterized by limited codivergence and several duplication, sorting and host-switching events. Despite the elevated mutational rates found for P. arvicanthis, the spatial genetic structure was not more pronounced in the parasite lineages compared with the hosts. These findings may be partly attributed to larger effective population sizes of the parasite lineages, the vagility and social behaviour of Rhabdomys, and the lack of host-specificity observed in areas of host sympatry. Further, the patterns of genetic divergence within parasite and host lineages may also be largely attributed to historical biogeographic changes (expansion-contraction cycles). It is thus evident that the association between P. arvicanthis and Rhabdomys has been shaped by the synergistic effects of parasite traits, host-related factors and biogeography over evolutionary time.

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“…Polyplax arvicanthis has high specificity to Rhabdomys , a direct life cycle (Ledger ; Kim ) and high prevalence across the distribution (Table ; Matthee et al . , ).…”

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Biogeography and host‐related factors trump parasite life history: limited congruence among the genetic structures of specific ectoparasitic lice and their rodent hosts

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“…If the host species becomes extinct, sucking lice on that host also become extinct (Stork and Lyal 1993). The world fauna of sucking lice is estimated at 1540 species, of which 532 from more than 828 species of mammals were listed in 'Sucking Lice of the World' (Durden and Musser 1994) (Kim et al 1990, Kim 2007. Thus, about 1831 species of extant mammalian host species are expected to harbor 1008 new species of sucking lice.…”

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Taxonomy and Management of Insect Biodiversity

Kim

2009

Insect Biodiversity

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Effects of sex and locality on the abundance of lice on the wild rodent Oligoryzomys nigripes

2012

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Various factors can affect the parasite distribution on a host. In this study, the influence of sex, body size, and locality of a rodent host, Oligoryzomys nigripes, on lice abundance was investigated. A generalized linear model indicated that the sex and locality of O. nigripes significantly contributed to the variation in lice abundance on the host. The male bias of lice parasitizing the rodent host O. nigripes may be associated with intersexual differences in physiology and behavior, while locality differences in lice abundance may be associated with differences in host density and diversity between the two localities sampled. Studies of host-parasite associations improve the understanding of the ecology of infectious diseases, as well as the evolution of these host-parasite interactions.

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Blood-sucking lice (Anoplura) of small mammals: True parasites

Cited by 17 publications

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Biogeography and host‐related factors trump parasite life history: limited congruence among the genetic structures of specific ectoparasitic lice and their rodent hosts

Biogeography and host‐related factors trump parasite life history: limited congruence among the genetic structures of specific ectoparasitic lice and their rodent hosts

Taxonomy and Management of Insect Biodiversity

Effects of sex and locality on the abundance of lice on the wild rodent Oligoryzomys nigripes

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