| host associations of the tick, ixodes angustus (acari: ixodidae), on alaskan mammals. | infestation parameters are presented for 227 ticks, all ixodes angustus neumann, collected from individual mammals (n = 531) in southeastern and south-central alaska from 1996 to 1999. this tick was recovered from 12 of the 19 mammal species examined, with four species of shrews (sorex spp.), two species of voles [clethrionomys gapperi (vigors) and clethrionomys rutilus (pallas)], one species of mouse [peromyscus keeni (rhoads)], and the red squirrel [tamiasciurus hudsonicus (erxleben)] being th ... | 2003 | 14596283 |