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Pair of lice lost or parasites regained: the evolutionary history of anthropoid primate lice

BACKGROUND: The parasitic sucking lice of primates are known to have undergone at least 25 million years of coevolution with their hosts. For example, chimpanzee lice and human head/body lice last shared a common ancestor roughly six million years ago, a divergence that is contemporaneous with their...

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Autores principales: Reed, David L, Light, Jessica E, Allen, Julie M, Kirchman, Jeremy J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1828715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17343749
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-5-7