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Fragmented mitochondrial genomes are present in both major clades of the blood-sucking lice (suborder Anoplura): evidence from two Hoplopleura rodent lice (family Hoplopleuridae).
BMC genomics - 2 Sept 2014
Dong Wen-Ge, Song Simon, Guo Xian-Guo, Jin Dao-Chao, Yang Qianqian, Barker Stephen C, Shao Renfu
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The suborder Anoplura contains 540 species of blood-sucking lice that parasitize over 840 species of eutherian mammals. Fragmented mitochondrial (mt) genomes have been found in the lice of humans, pigs, horses and rats from four families: Pediculidae, Pthiridae, Haematopinidae and Polyplacidae. These lice, eight species in total, are from the same major clade of the Anoplura. The mt genomes of these...
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