Nature of crop contents of an amblyceran pigeon louse, Colpocephalum turbinatum (Phthiraptera: Insecta)
| العنوان: | Nature of crop contents of an amblyceran pigeon louse, Colpocephalum turbinatum (Phthiraptera: Insecta) |
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| المؤلفون: | Surendra Kumar, Rehmat Ali, Arun Kumar Saxena, Ghazi Khan |
| المصدر: | Journal of Applied and Natural Science. 10:45-47 |
| بيانات النشر: | ANSF Publications, 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 0106 biological sciences, 040301 veterinary sciences, Amblycera, Zoology, Louse, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 0403 veterinary science, Crop, biology.animal, General Environmental Science, General Immunology and Microbiology, biology, Host (biology), fungi, Ventral side, food and beverages, 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences, biology.organism_classification, Colpocephalum turbinatum, Feather, visual_art, visual_art.visual_art_medium, Instar, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| الوصف: | Selected haemetophagous phthirapterans have been convicted to act as reservoir and transmitter of pathogens among their hosts. Amblyceran Phthiraptera are generally believed to exhibit varying degree of haemetophagy. The microscopic examination of 100 adults (both sexes) and 47 nymphal instars of an amblyceran louse, Colpocephalum turbinatum revealed their non haemetophagous nature as any red content compatible with host blood was not detected in their crops. The crops of the lice were found packed with only feather barbules. On seven instances the pieces of egg chorion and in 20 cases the presence of epidermal tissue were also detected in crop contents. However, the presence of any triturating agent (any structure which can help in grinding the feather contents) was not noticed. SEM studies on the ventral side of the head of the louse do not indicate the presence of any pointed gear which can be used to pierce the skin blood vessels of host. Present study suggests that few amblyceran species of Phthiraptera are not in haemetophagous in nature. |
| تدمد: | 2231-5209 0974-9411 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::0f3a9ab234872e0309575ff4b4f62498 https://doi.org/10.31018/jans.v10i1.1576 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........0f3a9ab234872e0309575ff4b4f62498 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 22315209 09749411 |
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