Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Authors: | C. W. Dick |
Journal: | Ecological Entomology |
Volume: | 32 |
Pagination: | 446 - 450 |
Date Published: | 2007 |
Abstract: | 1. Host specificity is the degree to which a parasite species occurs in association with a host species.2. The degree to which obligate ectoparasites are host specific has been debated, but effects of sampling contamination were usually not addressed. Data from a controlled mammal – ectoparasite survey were used to assess host specificity of an obligate group of ectoparasites – streblid bat flies. |
URL: | http://www.phthiraptera.info/sites/phthiraptera.info/files/47115.pdf |
High host specificity of obligate ectoparasites
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