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Title: | Unravelling the phenology of Ixodes frontalis, a common but understudied tick species in Europe | Authors: | Agoulon, Albert Hoch, Thierry HEYLEN, Dieter Chalvet-Monfray, Karine Plantard, Olivier |
Issue Date: | 2019 | Publisher: | ELSEVIER GMBH | Source: | TICKS AND TICK-BORNE DISEASES, 10(3), p. 505-512 | Abstract: | Tick-borne diseases have a complex epidemiology that depends on different ecological communities, associating several species of vertebrate hosts, vectors and pathogens. While most studies in Europe are focused on Ixodes ricinus, the common sheep tick, other Ixodes species may also be involved in the transmission or maintenance of different pathogens. In this study, we describe for the first time the activity pattern of I. frontalis, an understudied but widespread tick species associated with several common bird species in Europe. Questing ixodid tick stages (larvae, nymphs and adults) of both I. frontalis and I. ricinus were monitored by the drag sampling method over three years at the same locations in Western France. Differential activities were observed depending on I. frontalis life stages: nymphs and adults were present sporadically on the ground throughout the year, while larvae exhibited a marked peak of activity around October-November with tens or even hundreds of individuals per m(2), followed by a slow decrease in winter. Larvae were completely absent in summer, which contrasts with the high numbers of I. ricinus larvae at this time of the year. The vegetation and the litter where the two tick species were found also exhibited marked differences, with I. frontalis mostly collected under bamboo bushes. | Notes: | [Agoulon, Albert; Hoch, Thierry; Plantard, Olivier] INRA, Oniris, BIOEPAR, F-44307 Nantes, France. [Heylen, Dieter] Hasselt Univ, Interuniv Inst Biostat & Stat Bioinformat, Diepenbeek, Belgium. [Heylen, Dieter] Princeton Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA. [Chalvet-Monfray, Karine] INRA, EPIA, VetAgro Sup, F-63122 St Genes Champanelle, France. | Keywords: | Vector-borne diseases;Bird ectoparasitesIxodes ricinus;Drag sampling;Questing stages;Population dynamics | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/30184 | ISSN: | 1877-959X | e-ISSN: | 1877-9603 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.12.009 | ISI #: | 000462352500001 | Rights: | 2018 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2020 |
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