Proctophyllodes sp. (Proctophyllodinae) and Amerodectes sp. (Pterodectinae) from Molothrus ater adult and nestling Raw sequence reads
The goal is to test the brood parasite facilitation hypothesis in a feather mite symbiosis on warblers, such that brood parasites (cowbirds) act as vectors for mites to transmit from one host species to another.