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A hitchhiker's guide to parasite transmission: The phoretic behaviour of feather liceChristopher W Harbison
Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Int J Parasitol 39:569-75. 2009..The superior phoretic ability of wing lice may be related to morphological adaptations for life on wing feathers, compared to body feathers...
Community interactions govern host-switching with implications for host-parasite coevolutionary historyChristopher W Harbison
Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:9525-9. 2011..Body lice do not switch hosts, even where flies are present. Thus, differences in the coevolutionary history of wing and body lice can be explained by differences in host-switching, mediated by a member of the broader parasite community...
