| are lice good proxies for host history? a comparative analysis of the australian magpie, gymnorhina tibicen, and two species of feather louse. | parasites have been recently advocated as useful proxies for unravelling a complex evolutionary history of a host. in the present study, two species of feather lice, brueelia semiannulata and philopterus sp. were analysed for mitochondrial variation and compared to mitochondrial and nuclear variation in their host, the australian magpie gymnorhina tibicen. phylogenies constructed using maximum likelihood methods revealed geographic structuring for both species of feather lice and host. our genet ... | 2008 | 18461081 |