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SUBMITTER: Graham CB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5572895 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Graham Christine B CB Eisen Rebecca J RJ Belthoff James R JR
Journal of medical entomology 20151106 2
Pulex irritans L. is a cosmopolitan flea species that infests a wide variety of hosts. In North America it generally parasitizes large wild mammals, but in the Pacific Northwest an association has emerged between P. irritans and the western burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia hypugaea). While investigators have recognized this association for decades, it has not been clear if P. irritans feeds on burrowing owls, or if the owls serve exclusively as phoretic hosts. Here we describe using a real-time ...[more]