Seventy species of ticks are known from Australia: 14 soft ticks (family Argasidae) and 56
hard ticks (family Ixodidae). Sixteen of the 70 ticks in Australia may feed on humans and …

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 …

Ticks are obligate haematophagous ectoparasites of various animals, including humans,
and are abundant in temperate and tropical zones around the world. They are the most …

The hard tick family Ixodidae currently comprises 729 species worldwide, but information on
the species that feed on humans is scattered and often difficult to access. We have …

Over the past several years, there was a substantial increase in the number of cases of
known and novel tick-borne infections in humans in China. To better understand the ticks …

We inferred the phylogenetic and phylogeographic relationships in ticks, which were
identified morphologically as Ixodes holocyclus and Ixodes cornuatus, from mitochondrial …

Wildlife parasitology is a highly diverse area of research encompassing many fields
including taxonomy, ecology, pathology and epidemiology, and with participants from …

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 …

Abstract Background The Australasian paralysis ticks and their relatives, Ixodes Latrielle,
subgenus Sternalixodes Schulze, are some of the most important ticks in the region …

Molecular techniques are increasingly being used to study the ecology of a variety of
organisms. These techniques represent important tools for the study of the systematics …