… : Comparing morphology and genetic diversity. The Annual … of Ixodes holocyclus (paralysis
tick), Ixodes 232 cornuatus (… agent in ticks in south-eastern Australia. Epidemiol. Infect. …

… diversity of genetically distinct Rickettsia spp. that remain to be fully explored in Australian
ticks. … holocyclus ticks removed from similar wildlife species as those sampled in this study [30]. …

… Finally, we outline additional genetic evidence, from a recent … that its most significant native
species—Ixodes holocyclus Neumann… of the southern paralysis tick, Ixodes cornuatus, with a …

… holocyclus and Ixodes cornuatus [15]. Ixodes holocyclus has been considered the most …
microplus EST sequences (n = 13,643) and by undertaking gene discovery experiments to …

… NGS results revealed the 16S rRNA gene diversity profile was … the high bacterial diversity
in native Australian ticks. … [25], Tasmanian paralysis tick Ixodes cornuatus [26], Ixodes …

… barriers to paralysis tick (Ixodes holocyclus) dispersal using the … vector in Queensland,
Australia; the paralysis tick. A total of … to identify genetic differences in paralysis tick populations …

… Ixodes holocyclus and Ixodes cornuatus cause paralysis in humans, domestic animals, and
… coast and southern Australian distribution respectively (6). The Australian paralysis tick (I. …

… restricted to species endemic of Australian and the southern Neotropical … genes at amino
acid codification (AA) and at nucleotide codification (NT; this last includes both ribosomal genes…

… distinct from but closely related to Rickettsia gravesii and within the … tick species in
Australia, with geographically distinct populations of the same tick species harboring genetically …

… is distributed across the coastal regions of south-eastern Australia and into Tasmania (Fig.
1… cornuatus, which has been studied to a lesser degree than I. holocyclus, is thought to cause …