Host-Parasite Association Dynamics Influence Dispersal and Population Genetics of Little Brown Myotis (<i>Myotis lucifugus</i>, Le Conte 1831) Ectoparasites.

ABSTRACT: Host-parasite relationships can affect the dispersal and transmission of parasites. Myodopsylla insignis (Rothchild, 1903), a bat flea, and Spinturnix americanus (Banks, 1902), a bat wing mite, are two common ectoparasites of the little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus, Le Conte 1831) that differ in life cycles and time spent on the host. Our goal was to compare how life history traits and host-parasite relationships influence the genetic structure and biogeography of co-infecting ectoparasites using S. americanus mites and M. insignis fleas that feed on Myotis lucifugus bats. Ectoparasites were collected from bats captured at maternity roosts between 2010 and 2017 in Atlantic Canada and sequenced for the cytochrome oxidase c subunit 1 gene. We barco

SUBMITTER: Sauk AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12034157 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature