Life history characteristics of birds influence patterns of tick parasitism
Introduction: Birds serve as reservoirs for tick-borne pathogens as well as hosts for multiple tick species of public health relevance. Birds may perpetuate life cycles of vectors and vector-borne pathogens and disperse disease vectors over long distances, supplementing populations at range margins...
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| author | R. Jory Brinkerhoff Lena Dang Henry M. Streby Maren Gimpel |
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| description | Introduction: Birds serve as reservoirs for tick-borne pathogens as well as hosts for multiple tick species of public health relevance. Birds may perpetuate life cycles of vectors and vector-borne pathogens and disperse disease vectors over long distances, supplementing populations at range margins or seeding invading populations beyond the edges of current tick distributions. Our goal for this study was to identify life history characteristics of birds that most strongly affect tick parasitism. Materials and Methods: We collected 6203 ticks from 5426 birds from two sites in eastern North America and used field-derived parasitism data and published literature to analyze impacts of life history factors on tick parasitism in birds. Results and Discussion: We identified body size and nest site to have the strongest impact on tick prevalence and abundance in the songbird species included in this study. Our findings reveal site-independent patterns in tick parasitism on birds and suggest that physical more than behavioral characteristics may influence a bird species’ suitability as a host for ticks. Conclusions: The data and results published here will contribute to a growing body of literature and information on bird-tick interactions and will help elucidate patterns of tick and tick-borne pathogen geographic expansion. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-20fead344da44eb19ab276dbd3a9406d2022-12-21T18:56:41ZengTaylor & Francis GroupInfection Ecology & Epidemiology2000-86862019-01-019110.1080/20008686.2018.15470961547096Life history characteristics of birds influence patterns of tick parasitismR. Jory Brinkerhoff0Lena Dang1Henry M. Streby2Maren Gimpel3University of RichmondUniversity of RichmondUniversity of MinnesotaWashington CollegeIntroduction: Birds serve as reservoirs for tick-borne pathogens as well as hosts for multiple tick species of public health relevance. Birds may perpetuate life cycles of vectors and vector-borne pathogens and disperse disease vectors over long distances, supplementing populations at range margins or seeding invading populations beyond the edges of current tick distributions. Our goal for this study was to identify life history characteristics of birds that most strongly affect tick parasitism. Materials and Methods: We collected 6203 ticks from 5426 birds from two sites in eastern North America and used field-derived parasitism data and published literature to analyze impacts of life history factors on tick parasitism in birds. Results and Discussion: We identified body size and nest site to have the strongest impact on tick prevalence and abundance in the songbird species included in this study. Our findings reveal site-independent patterns in tick parasitism on birds and suggest that physical more than behavioral characteristics may influence a bird species’ suitability as a host for ticks. Conclusions: The data and results published here will contribute to a growing body of literature and information on bird-tick interactions and will help elucidate patterns of tick and tick-borne pathogen geographic expansion.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20008686.2018.1547096ixodes scapularisavian ecology and life historyparasitismzoonotic disease |
| spellingShingle | R. Jory Brinkerhoff Lena Dang Henry M. Streby Maren Gimpel Life history characteristics of birds influence patterns of tick parasitism Infection Ecology & Epidemiology ixodes scapularis avian ecology and life history parasitism zoonotic disease |
| title | Life history characteristics of birds influence patterns of tick parasitism |
| title_full | Life history characteristics of birds influence patterns of tick parasitism |
| title_fullStr | Life history characteristics of birds influence patterns of tick parasitism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Life history characteristics of birds influence patterns of tick parasitism |
| title_short | Life history characteristics of birds influence patterns of tick parasitism |
| title_sort | life history characteristics of birds influence patterns of tick parasitism |
| topic | ixodes scapularis avian ecology and life history parasitism zoonotic disease |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20008686.2018.1547096 |
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