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Lice

Known as: Louse, Phthiraptera 
An order of small, wingless parasitic insects, commonly known as lice. The suborders include ANOPLURA (sucking lice); AMBLYCERA; ISCHNOCERA; and… Expand
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AnopluraBody louse infestationLice InfestationsMicrobiological
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Broader (1)

Insecta

Narrower (2)

Pediculus humanus capitis (eukaryote)Rhyncophthirina

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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Phylogenetic relationships among insect orders based on three nuclear protein-coding gene sequences.
Many attempts to resolve the phylogenetic relationships of higher groups of insects have been made based on both morphological… Expand
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Co-phylogeography and comparative population genetics of the threatened Galápagos hawk and three ectoparasite species: ecology shapes population histories within parasite communities.
Comparative microevolutionary studies of multiple parasites occurring on a single host species can help shed light on the… Expand
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Using parasites to infer host population history: a new rationale for parasite conservation
Only one of the 5000 extant louse species (Phthiraptera) and no species of flea (Siphonaptera), parasitic helminth… Expand
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
The population genetics of host specificity: genetic differentiation in dove lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera).
Some species of parasites occur on a wide range of hosts while others are restricted to one or a few host species. The host… Expand
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Significant levels of sequence divergence and gene rearrangements have occurred between the mitochondrial genomes of the wild mulberry silkmoth, Bombyx mandarina, and its close relative, the…
The metazoan mitochondrial (mt) genome is typically a circular, double-stranded DNA molecule between 14 and 18 kb in size. This… Expand
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
The Phylogeny of the Extant Hexapod Orders
Morphological and molecular data are marshalled to address the question of hexapod ordinal relationships. The combination of 275… Expand
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
CRITICAL EVALUATION OF FIVE METHODS FOR QUANTIFYING CHEWING LICE (INSECTA: PHTHIRAPTERA)
Five methods for estimating the abundance of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) were tested. To evaluate the methods, feral… Expand
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Numerous gene rearrangements in the mitochondrial genome of the wallaby louse, Heterodoxus macropus (Phthiraptera).
The complete arrangement of genes in the mitochondrial (mt) genome is known for 12 species of insects, and part of the gene… Expand
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
The Strepsiptera problem: phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders inferred from 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA sequences and morphology.
Phylogenetic relationships among the holometabolous insect orders were inferred from cladistic analysis of nucleotide sequences… Expand
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Highly Cited
1935
Highly Cited
1935
Rats, Lice And History
When "Rats, Lice and History" appeared in 1935, Hans Zinsser was a highly regarded Harvard biologist who had never written about… Expand
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