| host associations of the tick, ixodes angustus (acari: ixodidae), on alaskan mammals. | infestation parameters are presented for 227 ticks, all ixodes angustus neumann, collected from individual mammals (n = 531) in southeastern and south-central alaska from 1996 to 1999. this tick was recovered from 12 of the 19 mammal species examined, with four species of shrews (sorex spp.), two species of voles [clethrionomys gapperi (vigors) and clethrionomys rutilus (pallas)], one species of mouse [peromyscus keeni (rhoads)], and the red squirrel [tamiasciurus hudsonicus (erxleben)] being th ... | 2003 | 14596283 |
| 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 |