Genome-wide analysis
of the human head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis) reveals
geographically structured genetic populations
Running title: Population genomics of human head lice
Niyomi House1,2,4 *, Aida T.
Miro-Herrans2,3, Julie M. Allen4,
Muhammad Ashfaq5, Bret M. Boyd6,
Henk Braig7,7a, Oleg Mediannikov8,
Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu9, Alejandra
Perotti10, RamÃrez-Rozzi V.
Fernando11, Dider Raoult8, Lajos
Rozsa12,13, Jan Stefka14, Ariel C.
Toloza15, Natacha V. Wirdemark16 and
David L. Reed2
1 Department of Biology, University of Florida,
Gainesville, Florida, USA
2 Florida Museum of Natural History, University of
Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
3 George Smathers Libraries, University of Florida,
Gainesville, Florida, USA
4 Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno,
Nevada, USA
5 Centre for Biodiversity Genomics and Department of
Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
6 Center for Biological Data Science, Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
7 School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University,
Wales, UK
7a Institute and Museum of Natural Sciences, National
University of San Juan, San Juan, Argentina
8 Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, MEPHI, Marseille,
France.
9 Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics,
The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
10 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Section, School of
Biological Science, University of Reading, UK
11UMR 7206 Ecoanthropologie, MNHN, CNRS, UP
12 Institute of Evolution, ELKH Centre for Ecological
Research, Hungary
13 Centre for Eco-Epidemiology, National Laboratory
for Health Security, Hungary
14 Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in
Ceske Budejovice, CZ and Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre CAS,
CZ
15 Centro de Investigaciones de Plagas e Insecticidas
(CONICET-UNIDEF), Villa Martelli, Buenos Aires, Argentina
16 LusFri Inspagat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
* Address correspondence to Niyomi House,
niyomiw88@gmail.com