Phylogenomics reveals the origin of mammal lice out of Afrotheria - Nature.com

Mammals host a diversity of parasites including lice. Using cophylogenetics and phylogenetic comparative methods, the authors show that the main lineages of placental mammal lice had a single common ancestor and find that all parasitic lice had an avian ances…

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