New insights into the relationship of parasitic quill mites and birds: Picobia species in Asian and New World Barbets

Quill mites are obligatory parasites of birds, widely distributed among their hosts. For the first time, we examined birds from two small, phylogenetically closely related piciform families, Megalaimidae (New World Barbets) and Capitonidae (Asian Barbets), for infestation by parasitic mites of the s...

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Main Authors: M. Skoracki, B. Sikora, M. Unsoeld, M. Hromada, Z. Kwieciński
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2024-07-01
Series:The European Zoological Journal
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/24750263.2024.2371843
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