From cuckoos to chickens: a caught-in-the-act case of host shift in feather mites (Arachnida: Acari: Psoroptoididae)
| Autor: | Luiz Gustavo A. Pedroso, Fabio Akashi Hernandes, Sergey Mironov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Mite Infestations Population Mange Zoology Acariformes Host Specificity Guira guira Birds Disease Transmission Infectious medicine Mite Animals Acari education Cuckoo Poultry Diseases Mites education.field_of_study General Veterinary biology Bird Diseases Ecology Feather mite General Medicine Feathers medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Infectious Diseases Insect Science Female Parasitology Chickens Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Parasitology Research. 113:4355-4361 |
| ISSN: | 1432-1955 0932-0113 |
| Popis: | Feather mites are highly specialized permanent ectosymbionts recorded from all recently recognized bird orders. These mites, specialized to live in the plumage of their hosts, rarely cause any visible damage to their specific hosts. Recently described feather mite Allopsoroptoides galli Mironov (Acariformes: Psoroptoididae) was reported to cause severe mange in chickens in Brazil, leading to unprecedented economic losses. Until now, the natural host of A. galli remained unknown. In this paper, we report its true wild host, the Guira cuckoo Guira guira (Cuculiformes: Cuculidae). In addition, a previously unknown heteromorphic form of males is described from the mite population distributed on its natural host. We also speculate a possible scenario by which this mite species could have been horizontally transferred from the wild populations of the natural host to the secondary hosts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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