| borrelia garinii in seabird ticks (ixodes uriae), atlantic coast, north america. | borrelia garinii is the most neurotropic of the genospecies of b. burgdorferi sensu lato that cause lyme disease in europe, where it is transmitted to avian and mammalian reservoir hosts and to humans by ixodes ricinus. b. garinii is also maintained in an enzootic cycle in seabirds by i. uriae, a tick found at high latitudes in both the northern and southern hemispheres. to determine whether b. garinii is present in seabird ticks on the atlantic coast of north america, we examined 261 i. uriae t ... | 2006 | 17326943 |
| wahlund effects and sex-biased dispersal in ixodes ricinus, the european vector of lyme borreliosis: new tools for old data. | population genetics can help us better understand species microevolution and population biology, but inferences made from the genetic polymorphisms of field-collected organisms critically rely on sampling design. the population structure of the tick ixodes ricinus l. (acari, ixodidae), a commonly encountered ectoparasite and the principal vector of human lyme disease in europe, has been the focus of some study, but many ecological aspects of this species remain poorly understood. here, we apply ... | 2010 | 20601167 |