The advent of DNA amplification techniques and methods of automated DNA sequencing
has greatly influenced the availability of applying nucleotide sequences in phylogenetic …

Molecular methods are becoming increasingly important in systematic acarology. In this
review I describe the properties of the ideal molecular marker and compare these with …

Abstract Domain III of the mitochondrial 12S rDNA was examined in 51 tick species to test
discrepancies between a previously published 16S mitochondrial rDNA phylogeny and …

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 …

The application of molecular markers to the study of ticks and mites has recently yielded new
insights into their population structures and taxonomic relationships. Ticks have been …

Acari harbor numerous minute species of agricultural economic importance, mainly
Tetranychidae and Phytoseiidae. Great efforts have been established by means of …

Idiosyncratic markers are features of genes and genomes that are so unusual that it is
unlikely that they evolved more than once in a lineage of organisms. Here we explore further …

Ticks are parasitiform mites that are obligate hematophagous ectoparasites of amphibians,
reptiles, birds, and mammals. A phylogeny for tick families, subfamilies, and genera has …

The genus Amblyomma is the third most diverse in the number of species within the
Ixodidae, with practically half of its species distributed in the Americas, though there are also …

The public database GenBank is an increasingly important source of sequence data for
diagnostic and phylogenetic research; however, not all deposited sequences are …