| lice and ticks of the eastern rufous mouse lemur, microcebus rufus, with descriptions of the male and third instar nymph of lemurpediculus verruculosus (phthiraptera: anoplura). | sucking lice and ticks were collected from live-trapped eastern rufous mouse lemurs, microcebus rufus geoffroy, in and around the periphery of ranomafana national park, southeastern madagascar, from 2007 to 2009. samples of 53 sucking lice (insecta: phthiraptera: anoplura) and 28 hard ticks (acari: ixodidae) were collected from 36 lemur captures representing 26 different host individuals. all of the lice were lemurpediculus verruculosus (ward) (6 males, 46 females, 1 third instar nymph). only th ... | 2010 | 20950093 |
| mapping the social network: tracking lice in a wild primate (microcebus rufus) population to infer social contacts and vector potential. | studies of host-parasite interactions have the potential to provide insights into the ecology of both organisms involved. we monitored the movement of sucking lice (lemurpediculus verruculosus), parasites that require direct host-host contact to be transferred, in their host population of wild mouse lemurs (microcebus rufus). these lemurs live in the rainforests of madagascar, are small (40 g), arboreal, nocturnal, solitary foraging primates for which data on population-wide interactions are dif ... | 2012 | 22449178 |