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Description of the female, nymph and larva and mitochondrial genome, and redescription of the male of Ixodes barkeri Barker, 2019 (Acari Ixodidae)5.11 MB
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Description of the female, nymph and larva and mitochondrial genome, and redescription of the male of Ixodes barkeri Barker, 2019 (Acari: Ixodidae), from the short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus, with a consideration of the most suitable subgenus for this tick
Parasites & Vectors, Vol.15(1), pp.1-18
2022
PMID: 35365195
Abstract
Background: Ixodes barkeri, a tick with a distinctive ventrolateral horn-like projection on palpal segment 1, was described in 2019 from two male ticks from the Wet Tropics of Far North Queensland, Australia. However, females lie at the core of the taxonomy and subgenus classifcation of Ixodes; hence, we sought specimens of female ticks, successfully recovering females, plus nymphs and larvae. Mitochondrial genomes are also desirable additions to the descriptions of species of ticks particularly regarding subgenus systematics. So, we sequenced the mt genomes of I. barkeri Barker, 2019, and the possible relatives of I. barkeri that were available to us (I. australiensis Neumann, 1904, I. fecialis Warburton & Nuttall, 1909, and I. woyliei Ash et al. 2017) with a view to discovering which if any of the subgenera of Ixodes would be most suitable for I. barkeri Barker, 2019.
Results: The female, nymph, larva and mitochondrial genome of Ixodes barkeri Barker, 2019, are described for the frst time and the male of I. barkeri is redescribed in greater detail than previously. So far, I. barkeri is known only from a monotreme, the short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus (Shaw, 1792), from the highland rainforests of the Wet Tropics of Far North Queensland, Australia.
Conclusions: Our phylogeny from entire mitochondrial genomes indicated that I. barkeri and indeed I. woyliei Ash et al., 2017, another tick that was described recently, are best placed in the subgenus Endopalpiger Schulze, 1935
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- Description of the female, nymph and larva and mitochondrial genome, and redescription of the male of Ixodes barkeri Barker, 2019 (Acari: Ixodidae), from the short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus, with a consideration of the most suitable subgenus for this tick
- Authors
- Dayana Barker (Author) - The University of QueenslandSamuel Kelava (Author) - The University of QueenslandRenfu Shao (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, GeneCology Research Centre - LegacyOwen D Seeman (Author) - Queensland MuseumMalcolm K Jones (Author) - The University of QueenslandRyo Nakao (Corresponding Author) - Hokkaido UniversityStephen C Barker (Corresponding Author) - The University of QueenslandDmitry A Apanaskevich (Author) - Georgia Southern University
- Publication details
- Parasites & Vectors, Vol.15(1), pp.1-18
- Publisher
- BioMed Central Ltd.
- Date published
- 2022
- DOI
- 10.1186/s13071-022-05165-2
- ISSN
- 1756-3305
- PMID
- 35365195
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- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering; Centre for Bioinnovation
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99629140002621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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