Feather mites play a role in cleaning host feathers: New insights from DNA metabarcoding and microscopy

Cophylogenetic assessment of New World warblers (Parulidae) and their symbiotic feather mites (Proctophyllodidae)

(2018) Alix E. Matthews et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Embracing Colonizations: A New Paradigm for Species Association Dynamics

(2018) Sören Nylin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Detecting ancient codispersals and host shifts by double dating of host and parasite phylogenies: Application in proctophyllodid feather mites associated with passerine birds

(2017) Pavel B. Klimov et al.   EVOLUTION

PCR cycles above routine numbers do not compromise high-throughput DNA barcoding results

(2017) J. Vierna et al.   GENOME

Host specificity, infrequent major host switching and the diversification of highly host-specific symbionts: The case of vane-dwelling feather mites

(2017) Jorge Doña et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Dramatic Differences in Gut Bacterial Densities Correlate with Diet and Habitat in Rainforest Ants

(2017) Jon G. Sanders et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Cophylogenetic analyses reveal extensive host-shift speciation in a highly specialized and host-specific symbiont system

(2017) Jorge Doña et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Caterpillars lack a resident gut microbiome

(2017) Tobin J. Hammer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Inordinate Fondness Multiplied and Redistributed: the Number of Species on Earth and the New Pie of Life

(2017) Brendan B. Larsen et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Defensive Symbionts Mediate Host–Parasite Interactions at Multiple Scales

(2017) Skylar R. Hopkins et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Opening the Doors of Parasitology Journals to Other Symbionts

(2017) Roger Jovani et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Fungi, feather damage, and risk of predation

(2017) Zaid Al Rubaiee et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Parasite biodiversity faces extinction and redistribution in a changing climate

(2017) Colin J. Carlson et al.   Science Advances

Two Bacterial Genera, Sodalis and Rickettsia, Associated with the Seal Louse Proechinophthirus fluctus (Phthiraptera: Anoplura)

(2016) Bret M. Boyd et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Feather-degrading bacilli in the plumage of wild birds: Prevalence and relation to feather wear

(2016) Cody M. Kent et al.   AUK

Global associations between birds and vane-dwelling feather mites

(2016) Jorge Doña et al.   ECOLOGY

Assessment of Bacterial Communities in Thirteen Species of Laboratory-Cultured Domestic Mites (Acari: Acaridida)

(2016) Jan Hubert et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Gut Microbiotas and Host Evolution: Scaling Up Symbiosis

(2016) Michael Shapira   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Seasonal Succession Leads to Habitat-Dependent Differentiation in Ribosomal RNA:DNA Ratios among Freshwater Lake Bacteria

(2016) Vincent J. Denef et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Using the BirdTree.org website to obtain robust phylogenies for avian comparative studies: A primer

(2015) Diego Rubolini et al.   Current Zoology

Different space preferences and within-host competition promote niche partitioning between symbiotic feather mite species

(2015) Sofía Fernández-González et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

DNA barcoding and minibarcoding as a powerful tool for feather mite studies

(2015) Jorge Doña et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Symbiosis in an overlooked microcosm: a systematic review of the bacterial flora of mites

(2015) KITTIPONG CHAISIRI et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Evolution in action: climate change, biodiversity dynamics and emerging infectious disease

(2015) E. P. Hoberg et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Illuminating the dark matter in metabolomics: Fig. 1.

(2015) Ricardo R. da Silva et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PIPITS: an automated pipeline for analyses of fungal internal transcribed spacer sequences from the Illumina sequencing platform

(2015) Hyun S. Gweon et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Species mtDNA genetic diversity explained by infrapopulation size in a host-symbiont system

(2015) Jorge Doña et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Using the BirdTree.org website to obtain robust phylogenies for avian comparative studies: A primer

(2015) Diego Rubolini et al.   Current Zoology

Niche Partitioning of Feather Mites within a Seabird Host, Calonectris borealis

(2015) Laura M. Stefan et al.   PLoS One

Mutualistic Interactions and Biological Invasions

(2014) Anna Traveset et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Cost-efficient high-throughput HLA typing by MiSeq amplicon sequencing

(2014) Vinzenz Lange et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Carpoglyphus lactis(Acari: Astigmata) from various dried fruits differed in associated micro-organisms

(2014) J. Hubert et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Co-extinct and critically co-endangered species of parasitic lice, and conservation-induced extinction: should lice be reintroduced to their hosts?

(2014) Lajos Rózsa et al.   ORYX

Comparison and Validation of Some ITS Primer Pairs Useful for Fungal Metabarcoding Studies

(2014) Michiel Op De Beeck et al.   PLoS One

Repeatability of Feather Mite Prevalence and Intensity in Passerine Birds

(2014) Javier Diaz-Real et al.   PLoS One

Waste Not, Want Not: Why Rarefying Microbiome Data Is Inadmissible

(2014) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform

(2013) James J. Kozich et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

PERMANOVA, ANOSIM, and the Mantel test in the face of heterogeneous dispersions: What null hypothesis are you testing?

(2013) Marti J. Anderson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Chemosignaling diversity in songbirds: Chromatographic profiling of preen oil volatiles in different species

(2013) Helena A. Soini et al.   JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS One

Is Permanent Parasitism Reversible?—Critical Evidence from Early Evolution of House Dust Mites

(2013) Pavel B. Klimov et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

CD-HIT: accelerated for clustering the next-generation sequencing data

(2012) Limin Fu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

Feather mites (Acari: Astigmata) and body condition of their avian hosts: a large correlative study

(2012) Ismael Galván et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

The evolution of size of the uropygial gland: mutualistic feather mites and uropygial secretion reduce bacterial loads of eggshells and hatching failures of European birds

(2012) J. J. Soler et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

The fine line between mutualism and parasitism: complex effects in a cleaning symbiosis demonstrated by multiple field experiments

(2012) Bryan L. Brown et al.   OECOLOGIA

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Comparative analyses of proteolytic activities in seven species of synanthropic acaridid mites

(2010) Tomas Erban et al.   ARCHIVES OF INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY

DendroPy: a Python library for phylogenetic computing

(2010) J. Sukumaran et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Seasonality in the uropygial gland size and feather mite abundance in house sparrows Passer domesticus: natural covariation and an experiment

(2010) Péter L. Pap et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Validation of the ITS2 Region as a Novel DNA Barcode for Identifying Medicinal Plant Species

(2010) Shilin Chen et al.   PLoS One

Pathogenesis, parasitism and mutualism in the trophic space of microbe–plant interactions

(2010) Adrian C. Newton et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Network analysis shining light on parasite ecology and diversity

(2010) Robert Poulin   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Probing Evolutionary Patterns in Neotropical Birds through DNA Barcodes

(2009) Kevin C. R. Kerr et al.   PLoS One

FEATHER-DEGRADING BACTERIA: A NEW FRONTIER IN AVIAN AND HOST–PARASITE RESEARCH?

(2008) ALEX R. GUNDERSON   AUK

Digestive function of lysozyme in synanthropic acaridid mites enables utilization of bacteria as a food source

(2008) Tomas Erban et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY

Homage to Linnaeus: How many parasites? How many hosts?

(2008) A. Dobson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Symbioses of flagellates and prokaryotes in the gut of lower termites

(2008) Moriya Ohkuma   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY