A list of the 70 species of Australian ticks; diagnostic guides to and species accounts of Ixodes holocyclus (paralysis tick), Ixodes cornuatus (southern paralysis tick) …

SC Barker, AR Walker, D Campelo - International Journal for Parasitology, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Ticks of Australia. The species that infest domestic animals and humans

SC Barker, AR Walker - Zootaxa, 2014 - biotaxa.org
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 …

Wildlife parasitology in Australia: past, present and future

DM Spratt, I Beveridge - Australian journal of zoology, 2019 - CSIRO Publishing
Wildlife parasitology is a highly diverse area of research encompassing many fields
including taxonomy, ecology, pathology and epidemiology, and with participants from …

A survey of ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of companion animals in Australia

TL Greay, CL Oskam, AW Gofton, RL Rees, UM Ryan… - Parasites & vectors, 2016 - Springer
Background Ticks are among the most important vectors of pathogens affecting companion
animals, and also cause health problems such as tick paralysis, anaemia, dermatitis, and …

The bacterial biome of ticks and their wildlife hosts at the urban–wildland interface

SL Egan, CL Taylor, PB Banks… - Microbial …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
Advances in sequencing technologies have revealed the complex and diverse microbial
communities present in ticks (Ixodida). As obligate blood-feeding arthropods, ticks are …

Ixodes barkeri n. sp.(Acari: Ixodidae) from the short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus, with a revised key to the male Ixodes of Australia, and list of the …

D Barker - Zootaxa, 2019 - europepmc.org
A new species of Ixodes is described from two male specimens that have a distinctive
ventrolateral horn-like projection on palpal article 1. This structure is not found in any other …

An invasive human commensal and a native marsupial maintain tick populations at the urban fringe

CL Taylor, SL Egan, AW Gofton, PJ Irwin… - Medical and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) are major disease vectors globally making it increasingly
important to understand how altered vertebrate communities in urban areas shape tick …

[HTML][HTML] Haemoprotozoan surveillance in peri-urban native and introduced wildlife from Australia

SL Egan, CL Taylor, JM Austen, PB Banks… - Current Research in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Vector-borne haemoprotozoans comprise a diverse group of eukaryote single-celled
organisms transmitted by haematophagous (blood-feeding) invertebrates. They can cause …

Invasive rabbits host immature Ixodes ticks at the urban-forest interface

CL Taylor, HW Lydecker, N Lo, DF Hochuli… - Ticks and tick-borne …, 2020 - Elsevier
Introduced wildlife may be important alternative hosts for generalist ticks that cause health
issues for humans and companion animals in urban areas, but to date are rarely considered …