<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Constantin Constantinoiu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wei Wang</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cadhla Firth</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Richard Duffy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jaqueline Picard</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bruce Gummow</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Description of a new species of sucking louse &lt;i&gt;Hoplopleura kuhnludwigi&lt;/i&gt; (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Hoplopleuridae) from the Cape York rat &lt;i&gt;Rattus leucopus cooktownensis&lt;/i&gt; (Rodentia: Muridae) in Australia using conventional methodology</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Parasitology International</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Autofluorescence</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Epifluorescence microscopy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hoplopleura kuhnludwigi</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">new species</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rattus leucopus cooktownensis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">sucking lice</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2025</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jun-01-2025</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383576924001533</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">106</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">17 pp</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Full title: Description of a new species of sucking louse Hoplopleura kuhnludwigi (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Hoplopleuridae) from the Cape York rat Rattus leucopus cooktownensis (Rodentia: Muridae) in Australia using conventional methodology and novel epiflourescence microscopy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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		Sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura) have a significant impact on the health of the host.&lt;/li&gt;
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		Conventional methods used to process and describe lice species are laborious.&lt;/li&gt;
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		A new species of sucking louse is described using conventional methodology and novel epifluorescence microscopy.&lt;/li&gt;
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		The rat host for the new louse species was confirmed by DNA sequencing.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;A new species of &lt;a class=&quot;topic-link&quot; href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/sucking-louse&quot;&gt;sucking louse&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hoplopleura kuhnludwigi&lt;/em&gt; (Phthiraptera: Hoplopleuridae), from the Cape York rat &lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;topic-link&quot; href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/rattus&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about Rattus from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot;&gt;Rattus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; leucopus cooktownensis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Tate, 1951 (Rodentia: Muridae) is described and illustrated with photos and drawings. The host rat(s) were trapped in Northeast Queensland, Australia and identified using morphological characters and DNA sequencing. &lt;em&gt;Hoplopleura kuhnludwigi&lt;/em&gt; is the first louse species to be described on &lt;em&gt;R. leucopus&lt;/em&gt;. The morphology of the new louse species is contrasted with the morphology of &lt;em&gt;Hoplopleura&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt; spp. previously described in Australian murids and shown to be different from other louse species that infest Australian native murids. Both conventional lice processing and staining methodology and a novel method, based on autofluorescence of &lt;a class=&quot;topic-link&quot; href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/chitin&quot;&gt;chitin&lt;/a&gt;, have been used to describe and illustrate the diagnostic characters of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;H. kuhnludwigi&lt;/em&gt;. Processing of &lt;em&gt;H. kuhnludwigi&lt;/em&gt; for epifluorescence microscopy (EM) is fast and easy, and the examination of the lice processed by this method can improve the accuracy of the description and identification of the lice species from genus &lt;em&gt;Hoplopleura&lt;/em&gt; and potentially other louse species.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Online published - Nov 2024&lt;/p&gt;
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