Understanding the life history characteristics of bird lice: Amblycera versus Ischnocera

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/een.13416" target="_blank" >10.1111/een.13416</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Understanding the life history characteristics of bird lice: Amblycera versus Ischnocera

Original language description

Permanent ectoparasites, adapted to living on their hosts, face limited survival abilities and food availability off the host body. We investigated the variance in survivability and the diet type preferences between bird lice from two different groups - Amblycera and Ischnocera. While phylogenetic or morphological data can easily separate these groups, the difference in their life history characteristics is poorly understood. We observed that ischnoceran lice showed significantly longer survival than amblyceran lice (p &lt; 0.05) off the host body and experimental supplementing with host feathers further increased the survival time of ischnoceran lice. To examine the preference and possible effects of the diet, we evaluated the presence of feathers, blood or both in 4587 chewing lice (1418 amblyceran and 3169 ischnoceran lice). Blood was found in 36% of amblyceran lice from 14 genera, and no blood was found in ischnoceran lice, pointing to different feeding habits between these two groups. Haematophagy is recorded here for the first time for the genera Ardeiphilus, Gruimenopon, Kurodaia, Machaerilaemus and Meromenopon. Furthermore, we evaluated hypopharynx reduction as a potential predisposition for blood-feeding in bird lice. Amblyceran lice may be more sensitive to changes in microhabitat conditions than ischnoceran lice, and in some cases, many species of Amblycera may also require an additional dietary source beyond bird feathers for their survival.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10616 - Entomology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ecological entomology

ISSN

0307-6946

e-ISSN

1365-2311

Volume of the periodical

50

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

453-467

UT code for WoS article

001380951700001

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