Influence of host ecology and morphology on the diversity of Neotropical bird lice

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The evolution of parasite-defence grooming in ungulates (2004, background): “Attempts to trace the evolution of grooming must at this time rely primarily upon comparative studies of host behaviour, ecology, morphology, and parasite abundance or diversity (e.g. Basibuyuk & Quicke, 1999; Clayton & Walther, 2001).”
How Birds Combat Ectoparasites (2010, background): “In another comparative study, Clayton and Walther [124] investigated the relationship of relative foot length and toenail flange width to the louse loads of Peruvian birds, but neither feature was correlated with louse species richness or abundance.”
Elaborate ornaments are costly to maintain: evidence for high maintenance handicaps (2005, methodology): “Preening and scratching together accounted for more than 90% of maintenance time in both wild and captive birds, verifying the importance of the bill and feet as grooming tools (Clayton, 1991; Clayton and Cotgreave, 1994; Clayton and Walther, 2001).”
Social Organization and Parasite Risk in Mammals: Integrating Theory and Empirical Studies (2003, background): “However, the association between group size and infection risk is often confounded with other host traits (e.g., R´ozsa 1997, Clayton & Walther 2001).”