Molecular methods are increasingly being utilized for accurate identification of ticks (Acari:
Ixodidae), especially in cases of morphologically highly similar species. In this study, we …

Ticks are important vectors of disease and parasites of livestock. Species identification of
ticks has been traditionally based on morphological characters, which is usually limited by …

Abstract Hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) are important obligatory blood feeding external
parasites of human and animals. There have been a lot of studies on taxonomy of Iranian …

Forty-five tick species have been recorded in Kazakhstan. However, their genetic diversity
and evolutionary relationships, particularly when compared to ticks in neighbouring …

To control the spread of tick-borne diseases, there is an urgent need to develop a reliable
technique that can distinguish different species of ticks. DNA barcoding has been proved to …

Understanding epidemiology of the tick-borne pathogens requires the accurate identification
of the vector ticks. Morphological analysis of ticks is difficult and often leads to …

Background The 5'region of cytochrome oxidase I (COI) is the standard marker for DNA
barcoding. However, COI has proved to be of limited use in identifying some species, and for …

Ticks represent a major source of growing economic and public health concern, especially
in the tropics and sub-tropics. Towards evidencing ticks' invasion in the North and North …

Blood meal analysis (BMA) from ticks allows for the identification of natural hosts of ticks
(Acari: Ixodidae). The aim of this study is to identify the blood meal sources of field collected …

In the present study, four hard tick species and one soft tick species, namely, Dermacentor
marginatus, Haemaphysalis punctata, Haemaphysalis parva, Ixodes ricinus, and …