Serendipity with chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae, Philopteridae) infesting rock pigeons and mourning doves (Aves: Columbiformes: Columbidae) in Manitoba, with new records for North America and Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract An extensive survey of chewing lice from rock pigeon,Columba liviaGmelin, and mourning dove,Zenaida macroura(L.), carried out from 1994 to 2000 and from 2003 to 2006 in Manitoba, Canada, produced the following new records:ColocerastovornikaeTendeiro for North America;Columbicola macrourae(Wilson),Hohorstiellalata(Piaget),H.paladinellaHill and Tuff, andPhysconelloides zenaidurae(McGregor) for Canada; andBonomiella columbaeEmerson,Campanulotes compar(Burmeister),Columbicola baculoides(Paine), andC. columbae(L.) for Manitoba. We collected 25 418 lice of four species (C. compar,C. columbae,H.lata, andC.tovornikae) from 322 rock pigeons. The overall prevalence of infestation was 78.9%, 52.5%, and 23.3% forC.compar,C.columbae, andH.lata, respectively.Coloceras tovornikaewas not discovered until 2003, after which its prevalence was 39.9% on 114 pigeons. We collected 1116 lice of five species (P.zenaidurae,C.baculoides,C. macrourae,H.paladinella, andB.columbae) from 117 mourning doves.Physconelloides zenaiduraewas encountered most often (prevalence was 36.7%), while the prevalence of the other four species was 26.3%, 18.4%, 3.5%, and 2.6%, respectively.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".