supported by the“Sonatina”grant no.2020/36/C/NZ8/00013;M.Z.by the“Preludium”grant no.2016/21/N/NZ8/01059;R.Z.by the“Harmonia”grant no.2018/30/M/NZ8/0052。
Mast seeding causes strongfluctuations in populations of forest animals.Thus,this phenomenon can be used as a natural experiment to examine how variation in host abundance affects parasite loads.We investigatedfleas inf...
Supported by the Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University,Tehran.
Objective:To access the emerging ectoparasites associated with shrews in Hamedan Province of Iran.Methods:We have captured bicoloured white-toothed shrews[Crocidura leucodon(C.leucodon)]using the live traps in April 2...
The objective of this study was to isolate entomopathogenic fungus from fleas (Ctenocephalides canis Curtis) collected from Cannis familiaris specimens. From 60 collected fleas, two dead insects presented white myceli...
provided by the National Basic Research Program of China(2012CB821903);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91114201 and 41222013);the Outstanding Youth Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK2012049);the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-YW-QN104);U.S. National Science Foundation (DEB-0542909)
The recently discovered definite giant fleas from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou fauna and the Early Cretaceous Jehol fauna of northeastern China represent significant evidence for understanding ectoparasitism in the Me...
The mating behavior of cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis (Bouche) was studied on an artificial feeding device. Male and female can mate repeatedly with same partner or different ones. In the situation of male: femal...