| ticks (acari: ixodidae) on small mammals in kootenay national park, british columbia, canada. | two hundred and ninety-one ticks (i.e., 185 larvae, 72 nymphs, and 34 adults) were removed from 153 small mammals comprising six species collected in verdant forest, numa forest, and marble canyon within kootenay national park, british columbia, canada. morphological examination and molecular analyses (i.e., polymerase chain reaction-single-strand conformation polymorphism [pcr-sscp] and dna sequencing of the mitochondrial 16s rrna gene) of the ticks revealed that most individuals were ixodes an ... | 2013 | 24843924 |
| parasite diversity at the holarctic nexus: species of arostrilepis (eucestoda: hymenolepididae) in voles and lemmings (cricetidae: arvicolinae) from greater beringia. | previously unrecognized species of hymenolepidid cestodes attributable to arostrilepis mas-coma & tenora, 1997 in arvicoline rodents from the greater beringian region and western north america are described. discovery and characterization of these tapeworms contributes to the recognition of a complex of cryptic species distributed across the holarctic region. three species are proposed: arostrilepis gulyaevi sp. n. is named for cestodes in myodes rufocanus from the republic of buryatia, southeas ... | 2013 | 24614481 |