Diversity of Feather Mites (Acari: Astigmata) on Darwin's Finches
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Diversity of feather mites (Acari: Astigmata) on Darwin's finches.
Feather mites are a diverse group of ectosymbionts that occur on most species of birds. Although Darwin's finches are a well-studied group of birds, relatively little is known about their feather mites. Nearly 200 birds across 9 finch species, and from 2 locations on Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos, were dust-ruffled during the 2009 breeding season. We found 8 genera of feather mites; the most pre...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Parasitology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0022-3395,1937-2345
DOI: 10.1645/12-112.1