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Lousy chicks: Chewing lice from the Imperial Shag, Leucocarbo atriceps

Forty-one imperial shag chicks were sampled for lice during the breeding season of 2014 in Punta León, Argentina. We found 2 lice species, Pectinopygus turbinatus infesting the body and Piagetiella caputincisum present in the oral cavity of the birds. This constitutes the first host record for P. tu...

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Autores principales: Leonardi, María Soledad, Quintana, Flavio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5554924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28831379
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2017.08.002

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