Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of a species-specific sucking louse, Johnsonpthirus heliosciuri, act as a proxy to provide insights into the population connectivity of its host, smith's bush squirrels, Paraxerus cepapi.

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Due to co-evolution, permanent species-specific lice and their hosts often exhibit congruent phylogenetic patterns, and to a lesser extent also congruent phylogeographic structures. However, because ectoparasites generally have smaller effective population sizes (due to their aggregated distribution), and they have a faster evolutionary rate (generation time effect), their phylogeographic structures are often...

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