Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1997 |
Authors: | L. Rózsa |
Journal: | Journal of Parasitology |
Volume: | 83 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pagination: | 543 - 544 |
Date Published: | 1997 |
Abstract: | The sex-ratio pattern of an exceptional population of human head-lice (collected in the Colombo Prison, Ceylon, in 1934 to 1936) was found to be consistent with a current hypothesis on adaptive sex-ratio manipulation. Data suggest that the louse burdens were isolated and, therefore, small burdens were inbred. Thus local mate competition favored females that produced offspring with a female bias. This is the first report to suggest that anopluran lice are capable of adaptive sex-ratio manipulation. |
URL: | http://www.phthiraptera.info/Publications/0317.pdf |