Molecular Ecological Insights into Neotropical Bird-Tick Interactions.

In the tropics, ticks parasitize many classes of vertebrate hosts. However, because many tropical tick species are only identifiable in the adult stage, and these adults usually parasitize mammals, most attention on the ecology of tick-host interactions has focused on mammalian hosts. In contrast, i...

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Main Authors: Matthew J Miller, Helen J Esser, Jose R Loaiza, Edward Allen Herre, Celestino Aguilar, Diomedes Quintero, Eric Alvarez, Eldredge Bermingham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4874597?pdf=render