@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref19387,
author = {Vincent S Smith and Tom Ford and Kevin P Johnson KP and Paul C.D. Johnson P and Kazunori Yoshizawa and Jessica E Light},
title = {Multiple lineages of lice pass through the K-Pg boundary},
year = {2011},
keywords = {Phthiraptera, Evolution, Cospeciation, Molecular Dating, Fossils},
doi = {},
url = {http://},
pmid = {},
journal = {Biology Letters},
volume = {},
number = {},
pages = {},
abstract = {For modern lineages of birds and mammals, few fossils have been found that predate the K-Pg boundary. However, molecular studies using fossil calibrations have shown that many of these lineages existed at that time. Both birds and mammals are parasitized by obligate ectoparasitic lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera), which have shared a long coevolutionary history with their hosts. Evaluating whether many lineages of lice passed through the K-Pg boundary would provide insight into the radiation of their hosts. Using molecular dating techniques we demonstrate that the major louse suborders began to radiate before the K-Pg boundary. These data lend support to a Cretaceous diversification of many modern bird and mammal lineages. }
}
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Citation title: "Multiple lineages of lice pass through the K-Pg boundary".
