The Common Swift Louse Fly, Crataerina pallida: An Ideal Species for Studying Host-Parasite Interactions
Little is known of the life-history of many parasitic species. This hinders a full understanding of host-parasitic interactions. The common swift louse fly, Crataerina pallida Latreille (Diptera: Hippoboscidae), an obligate haematophagous parasite of the Common Swift, Apus apus Linnaeus 1758, is one...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3029137 2023-05-15T14:17:15+02:00 The Common Swift Louse Fly, Crataerina pallida: An Ideal Species for Studying Host-Parasite Interactions Walker, Mark D. Rotherham, Ian D. 2010-11-08 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3029137 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21268705 https://doi.org/10.1673/031.010.19301 en eng University of Wisconsin Library http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3029137 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21268705 http://dx.doi.org/10.1673/031.010.19301 © 2010 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY Article Text 2010 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1673/031.010.19301 2013-09-03T10:28:17Z Little is known of the life-history of many parasitic species. This hinders a full understanding of host-parasitic interactions. The common swift louse fly, Crataerina pallida Latreille (Diptera: Hippoboscidae), an obligate haematophagous parasite of the Common Swift, Apus apus Linnaeus 1758, is one such species. No detrimental effect of its parasitism upon the host has been found. This may be because too little is known about C. pallida ecology, and therefore detrimental effects are also unknown. This is a review of what is known about the life-history of this parasite, with the aim of promoting understanding of its ecology. New, previously unreported observations about C. pallida made from personal observations at a nesting swift colony are described. Unanswered questions are highlighted, which may aid understanding of this host-parasite system. C. pallida may prove a suitable model species for the study of other host-parasite relationships. Text Apus apus PubMed Central (PMC) Journal of Insect Science 10 193 1 15 |
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Little is known of the life-history of many parasitic species. This hinders a full understanding of host-parasitic interactions. The common swift louse fly, Crataerina pallida Latreille (Diptera: Hippoboscidae), an obligate haematophagous parasite of the Common Swift, Apus apus Linnaeus 1758, is one such species. No detrimental effect of its parasitism upon the host has been found. This may be because too little is known about C. pallida ecology, and therefore detrimental effects are also unknown. This is a review of what is known about the life-history of this parasite, with the aim of promoting understanding of its ecology. New, previously unreported observations about C. pallida made from personal observations at a nesting swift colony are described. Unanswered questions are highlighted, which may aid understanding of this host-parasite system. C. pallida may prove a suitable model species for the study of other host-parasite relationships. |
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The Common Swift Louse Fly, Crataerina pallida: An Ideal Species for Studying Host-Parasite Interactions |
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The Common Swift Louse Fly, Crataerina pallida: An Ideal Species for Studying Host-Parasite Interactions |
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