Dr Dale H. Clayton
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, “High Ectoparasite Loads of Tropical Birds: Chewing Lice on Puerto Rican American Kestrels (Falco sparverius caribaearum)”, Journal of Wildlife Diseases, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 241-246, 2025.
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, “Independent and repeated acquisition of Sodalis endosymbiotic bacteria across the diversification of feather lice”, Royal Society Open Science, vol. 12, no. 9 (251220), p. 17 pp, 2025.
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, “Birds in arid regions have depauperate louse communities: Climate change implications?”, Ecology and Evolution, vol. 14, 2024.
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, “INFLUENCE OF GROOMING ON PERMANENT ARTHROPOD ASSOCIATES OF BIRDS: CATTLE EGRETS, LICE, AND MITES”, Journal of Parasitology, vol. 110, no. 2, pp. 143-149, 2024.
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, “Birds groom more in regions with higher parasite pressure: a comparison of temperate and subtropical American kestrels”, Animal Behaviour, vol. 201, pp. 125-135, 2023.
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, “Co‐parasitism in the face of predation: Effects of natural enemies on a neotropical mockingbird”, Journl of Animal Ecology, vol. 92, no. 10, pp. 1992-2004, 2023.
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, “Does Preening Behavior Reduce the Prevalence of Avian Feather Lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera)?”, Journal of Parasitology, vol. 109, no. 3, pp. 145-147, 2023.
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, “Grooming Time Predicts Survival: American Kestrels, Falco sparverius, on a Subtropical Island”, The American Naturalist, vol. 201, no. 4, pp. 603-609, 2023.
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, “Long-distance dispersal of pigeons and doves generated new ecological opportunities for host-switching and adaptive radiation by their parasites”, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol. 289, no. 1970, p. 8 pp, 2022.
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, “The assembled and annotated genome of the pigeon louse Columbicola columbae, a model ectoparasite”, G3 GenesGenomes¦Genetics, vol. 11, no. (2), jkab009, p. 10 pp, 2021.
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, “A Misidentification Crisis Plagues Specimen-Based Research: A Case for Guidelines with a Recent Example (Ali et al., 2020)”, Journal of Parasitology, vol. 107, no. 2, pp. 262-266, 2021.
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, “Is Allopreening a Stimulus-Driven Defense Against Ectoparasites?”, Journal of Parasitology, vol. 106, no. 1, pp. 167 - 171, 2020.
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, “The assembled and annotated genome of the pigeon louse Columbicola columbae, a model ectoparasite”, bioRxiv - The preprint server for biology, p. 11 pp, 2020.
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, “The role of scratching in the control of ectoparasites on birds”, The Auk, vol. 137, no. 2, pp. 1 - 9, 2020.
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, “Host defense triggers rapid adaptive radiation in experimentally evolving parasites”, Evolution Letters, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 120-128, 2019.
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, “Rapid experimental evolution of reproductive isolation from a single natural population”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 116, no. 27, pp. 13440 - 13445, 2019.
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, “Anti-parasite behaviour of birds”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 373, no. 1751, p. 20170196, 2018.
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, “Beak of the pinch: anti-parasite traits are similar among Darwin’s finch species”, Evolutionary Ecology, pp. 1-10, 2018.
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, “Body size and fecundity are correlated in feather lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera): implications for Harrison's rule”, Ecological Entomology, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 394 - 396, 2018.
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, “New records of ectoparasites from passerine birds in the High Tatras of Slovakia”, Oecologia Montana, vol. 27, pp. 43 - 45, 2018.
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, “Phoretic dispersal influences parasite population genetic structure”, Molecular Ecology, vol. 27, no. 12, pp. 2770 - 2779, 2018.
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, “Twelve new species of Priceiella (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) from Old World babblers, with keys to species of two subgenera and checklists of species for the genus”, Zootaxa, vol. 4382, no. 3, pp. 401 - 449, 2018.
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, “Phylogenomics using Target-restricted Assembly Resolves Intra-generic Relationships of Parasitic Lice (Phthiraptera: Columbicola)”, Systematic Biology, vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 896-911, 2017.
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, “Does allopreening control avian ectoparasites?”, Biology Letters, vol. 12, no. 7, p. 20160362, 2016.
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