Publications

Phylogenetics/Molecular Evolution

Roth C, Rastogi S, Arvestad L, Dittmar K, Light S, Ekman D, Liberles D. (2006). Evolution after gene duplication: Models, Mechanisms, Sequences, Systems, and Organisms. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol) 306B:1-16.

Dittmar K, Mendonca de Souza S, Araujo A. (2006). Challenges of phylogenetic analyses of aDNA sequences. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 101: 1-5.

Bitam I, Parola P, Dittmar K, Matsumoto K, Baziz B, Rolain JM, Belkaid M, Raoult D. (2006). First molecular detection of Rickettsia felis in fleas from Algeria. Journal of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 74(4): 532-535.

Dittmar K, Porter M, Murray S, Whiting MF (2006). Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of nycteribiid and streblid batflies (Diptera: Brachycera, Calyptratae): Implications for host association and phylogeographic origins. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 38:155-170.

Rothenburg S, Deigendesch N, Dittmar K, Nolte F, Haag F, Lowenhaupt K, Rich A (2005). A PKR-like eukaryotic initiation factor 2a kinase from zebrafish contains Z-binding domains instead of dsRNA binding domains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(5): 1602-1607.

Otto, H., Reche PA, Bazan, F., Dittmar K., Haag, F., Koch-Nolte, F. (2005). In silico characterization of PARP-like poly-(ADP-ribosyl)transferases (pARTs). BMC Genomics 6: 139.

Taylor S, Dittmar K (de la Cruz), Porter M, Whiting MF (2005). Characterization of the long wavelength opsin from Mecoptera and Siphonaptera: Does a flea see? Molecular Biology and Evolution 22(5): 1165-1174.

Trowbridge R., Dittmar K., Whiting MF. (2005). Identification and phylogeny of new endosymbionts from batflies (Nycteribiidae and Streblidae). Journal of Insect Pathology 91:64-68.

Dittmar K, Whiting MF (2004): New Wolbachia sp. and their phylogeny from Siphonaptera throughout the Nearctic and Neotropical Region. Journal of Parasitology 90(5): 953-957.

Dittmar K, Whiting MF (2003): Genetic and phylogeographic structure of populations of Pulex simulans (Siphonaptera) from domesticated guinea pigs (Cavia aperea f. porcellus) in Peru inferred from two genes (Cyt B and Co II). Parasitology Research, 91(1): 55-60.

Dittmar K, Goldmann T, Mamat U, Whiting M, Guillen S (2003): Techniques of ancient DNA-studies on Prehispanic Ectoparasites (Pulex sp., Pulicidae, Siphonaptera) from Animal Mummies of the Chiribaya Culture, Southern Peru. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 98(I): 53-59.

Faunistic Studies, Species Description, Ecology

Patterson B, Dick CW, Dittmar K. (2006). Roosting habits of bats affect their parasitism by bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae). submitted: OIKOS.

Hastriter MW, Dittmar K, Whiting MF (2006). Investigation of Taxonomically Important Morphological Features of Endoparasitic Bat Flies of the Subfamily Ascodipterinae (Streblidae) by Scanning Electron Microscopy. Zootaxa 1122: 57-68.

Dittmar K, M. L. Porter, L. Price, G. Svenson, and M. F. Whiting. (2005). Invertebrates of caves of peninsular Malaysia. Malayan Nature Journal 57(2): 221-233.

Dittmar K, Morando M, Avila L (2004): Description of a new pterygosomatid mite (Acari: Actinedida: Pterygosomatidae) parasitic on Liolaemus spp. (Iguania: Liolaemini) from Argentina. Zootaxa 521: 1-6.

Dittmar K, Ribbeck R, Daugschies A (2003): Incidence and Dispersal of Ectoparasites of Cavia sp. in Peru, South America. Berliner und Münchner Tierärztliche Wochenschriften 116: 102-107.

Dittmar K. (2002): Arthropod and Helminth parasites of the wild

guinea pig, Cavia aperea, from the Andes and the Cordillera in Peru, South America. Journal of Parasitology 88 (2): 409-411.

Dittmar K, Worschech K (2002): Siphonapteran fauna of Myoxus glis, Linnaeus 1766 of the Altenburg Region, Germany. Säugetierkundliche Information 19: 22-24.

Araujo A, Reinhard K, Dittmar K (2000): Then thousand years of

head lice infection. Trends in Parasitology 6: 216.

Palaeoparasitology

Aufderheide, A., Salo, W., Madden, M., Streitz, J., Dittmar, K., Buikstra, J., Arriaza, B., Wittmers, L. (2005). Aspects of Ingestion Transmission of Chagas Disease identified in mummies and their coprolites. Chungara Rev. Antr. Chil. 37(1): 85-90.

Dittmar K, Steyn M (2004): Paleoparasitological Analysis of Coprolites from K2, an Iron Age Archaeological Site in South Africa: The first finding of Dicrocoelium sp. eggs. Journal of Parasitology, 90(1): 171-173.

Dittmar K, Ribbeck R, Daugschies A (2003): Paleoparasitological analysis of guinea pig mummies of the Chiribaya Culture (900- 1100 AD), Moquegua Valley, Peru. Berliner und Münchner Tierärztliche Wochenschriften 117: 113-117.

Martinson E, Reinhard KJ, Buikstra JE, Dittmar K (2003). Pathoecology of Chiribaya Parasitism. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 98(I): 195-206.

Dittmar K, Teegen WR (2003): The presence of Fasciola hepatica (liver-fluke) in humans and cattle from a 4500 year old archaeological site in the Saale-Unstrut-Valley, Germany. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 98(I): 141-145.

Bouchet F, Guidon N, Dittmar K, Harter S, Ferreira LF, Chaves SM, Reinhard K & Araújo A (2003): Organic remains in archaeological sites. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 98(I): 47-52.

Dittmar K (2003): Studies on parts of 28S rDNA on 1000 year old fleas (Pulex sp.) from the Chiribaya Culture, Southern Peru. Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Nuuk 2001, Greenland. Kopenhagen University Press. pp. 134-135.

Dittmar K, Ludewig E, Conlogue J, Guillen S (2003): Bone-pathologies in Peruvian dog mummies from the Chiribaya Culture, Southern Peru, determined by X-ray. Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Nuuk 2001, Greenland. Kopenhagen University Press. pp 113-115.

Rick FM, Chaves da Rocha G, Dittmar K, Alvares Coimbra CE, Reinhard K, Ferreira LF, Araujo A (2002): Crab Louse Infection in PreColumbian America. Journal of Parasitology 88(6): 1266-1267.

Dittmar K, Teegen WR, Cordie Hackenberg R (2002): Helminth eggs from a latrine of the roman Vicus of Belginum/Wederath (Rheinland-Pfalz), Archaeologisches Korrespondenzblatt 32: 415-425.

Dittmar K (2000): Ectoparasites on Guinea Pig Mummies of El Yaral. Chungara: Rev. Antrop. Chil. 32(1): 123-127.