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Annual Review of Entomology

Volume 63, 2018

Alien Invasion: Biology of Flies Highlighting an Introduced Parasite of Galápagos Birds

Abstract

The muscid genus comprises approximately 50 described species of flies, nearly all of which are obligate parasites of nestling birds. species are native to the Neotropics and widely distributed from Florida to Argentina. Most research on this group has focused on which was introduced to the Galápagos Islands in the late twentieth century. Although parasitism kills nestlings in several native host species, nowhere do the effects seem more severe than in in the Galápagos. Here, we review studies of native and introduced in an attempt to identify factors that may influence virulence and consider implications for the conservation of hosts in the Galápagos.

Keyword(s): conservation, disease ecology, ectoparasite, invasive species, management, Muscidae
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Alien Invasion: Biology of Philornis Flies Highlighting Philornis downsi, an Introduced Parasite of Galápagos Birds
Annual Review of Entomology 63, 369 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-020117-043103
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