Systematic relationships among the basal Ixodidae are examined using one morphological
and three molecular data sets, 18S and 28S nuclear and 16S mitochondrial rDNA. Although …

Objective To describe the actual and potential geographic distributions of Ixodes cornuatus
and I holocyclus in south‐eastern Australia. Procedure Examination of ticks from museum …

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 …

Background Taxonomic identification of ticks obtained during a longitudinal survey of the
critically endangered marsupial, Bettongia penicillata Gray, 1837 (woylie, brush-tailed …

The present work is an update and a substantial expansion of Barker & Walker (2014).
Barker & Walker (2014) dealt with 16 species of particular importance to domestic animals …

The hard tick Ixodes ricinus is the principal vector of Lyme borreliosis (LB) group
spirochaetes in Europe, but it also transmits a large number of other microbial pathogens …

The tick Ixodes persulcatus Schulze, 1930, has a wide distribution from the Baltic to the Far
East and is a vector of a number of human pathogens. Thus, the study of the genetic …

Stephen C. Barker, Alan R. Walker and Dayana Campelo, A list of the 70 species of
Australian ticks; diagnostic guides to and species accounts of Ixodes holocyclus (paralysis …

Abstract Background Among hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae), the genus Ixodes comprises the
highest number of species, which in turn are most numerous in the Afrotropical …

Abstract The book Australian Ticks by FHS Roberts (1970) is a land-mark in Australian tick
biology. But it is time for a new and improved book on the ticks of Australia. The present …