| novel borrelia species detected in echidna ticks, bothriocroton concolor, in australia. | to date, little has been documented about microorganisms harboured within australian native ticks or their pathogenic potential. recently, a borrelia sp. related to the relapsing fever (rf) group was identified in a single tick removed from a wild echidna (tachyglossus aculeatus). the present study investigated the presence of borrelia in 97 bothriocroton concolor ticks parasitizing echidnas in queensland, new south wales, and victoria, australia, using nested pcr with borrelia-specific primers ... | 2016 | 27301754 |
| complete mitochondrial genome sequence data provides genetic evidence that the brown dog tick rhipicephalus sanguineus (acari: ixodidae) represents a species complex. | ticks are blood-sucking ectoparasites of great medical and veterinary significance that can transmit bacteria, protozoa, fungi and viruses, and cause a variety of human and animal diseases worldwide. in the present study, we sequenced the complete mitochondrial (mt) genome of rhipicephalus sanguineus from china (rsc) and compared with that of r. sanguineus from usa (rsu). nucleotide sequence difference in the full mt genome was 11.23% between rsc and rsu. for the 13 protein-coding genes, compari ... | 2013 | 23630448 |
| reptile-associated borrelia species in the goanna tick (bothriocroton undatum) from sydney, australia. | knowledge on the capacity of australian ticks to carry borrelia species is currently limited or missing. to evaluate the potential of ticks to carry bacterial pathogens and their dna, it is imperative to have a robust workflow that maximises recovery of bacterial dna within ticks in order to enable accurate identification. by exploiting the bilateral anatomical symmetry of ticks, we were able to directly compare two dna extraction methods for 16s rrna gene diversity profiling and pathogen detect ... | 2017 | 29262840 |
| phylogenetic analysis of ticks (acari: ixodida) using mitochondrial genomes and nuclear rrna genes indicates that the genus amblyomma is polyphyletic. | our understanding of the phylogenetic relationships among tick lineages has been limited by the lack of resolution provided by the most commonly used phylogenetic markers. mitochondrial genomes are increasingly used to address controversial phylogenetic relationships. to date, the complete mitochondrial genomes of eleven tick species have been sequenced; however, only three of these species are metastriate ticks, the most speciose lineage of ticks. in this study, we present the nucleotide sequen ... | 2012 | 22465402 |