| babesia moshkovskii (schurenkova, 1938) laird and lari, 1957; from the prairie falcon, falco mexicanus, in wyoming; with comments on other parasites found in this host. | babesia moshkovskiiwas found in the blood of 6 of 30 downy (d) prairie falcons and in none of 5 adults (a) from wyoming. intestinal parasites included neodiplostomum (c) spathula (a,3), cladotaenia globifera, (a,1), physaloptera sp., (a,1), and serratospiculum amaculatum, (a,4). ornithodorus concanensis, (d,3), thrassis francisi, (d,1), opisocrostis sp., (d.1), degeeriella rufa, (d,2), simulium (e.) canonicola (d,2), and an unidentified hippoboscid fly, (d,2) were external parasites. it is consi ... | 1975 | 1142557 |
| the parasite fauna of the gyrfalcon (falco rusticolus) in iceland. | we examined 46 gyrfalcon (falco rusticolus) carcasses from iceland for parasites, including 29 first-year birds and 17 second-year birds and older. endoparasites observed were the trematodes cryptocotyle lingua (prevalence 8%), cryptocotyle concavum (4%), and strigea sp. (8%); the cestode mesocestoides sp. (27%); and the nematodes eucoleus contortus (76%) and serratospiculum guttatum (7%). ectoparasites included the astigmatan mite dubininia accipitrina (47%), a mesostigmatan rhynonyssid mite (4 ... | 2015 | 26280881 |
| risk of ectoparasitism and genetic diversity in a wild lesser kestrel population. | parasites and infectious diseases are major determinants of population dynamics and adaptive processes, imposing fitness costs to their hosts and promoting genetic variation in natural populations. in the present study, we evaluate the role of individual genetic diversity on risk of parasitism by feather lice degeeriella rufa in a wild lesser kestrel population (falco naumanni). genetic diversity at 11 microsatellite loci was associated with risk of parasitism by feather lice, with more heterozy ... | 2007 | 17845443 |