| host switching of human lice to new world monkeys in south america. | the coevolution between a host and its obligate parasite is exemplified in the sucking lice that infest primates. in the context of close lice-host partnerships and cospeciation, pediculus mjobergi, the louse of new world primates, has long been puzzling because its morphology resembles that of human lice. to investigate the possibility that p. mjobergi was transmitted to monkeys from the first humans who set foot on the american continent thousands of years ago, we obtained and compared p. mjob ... | 2016 | 26867815 |