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Nested coevolutionary networks shape the ecological relationships of ticks, hosts, and the Lyme disease bacteria of the Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) complex

BACKGROUND: The bacteria of the Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) (BBG) complex constitute a group of tick-transmitted pathogens that are linked to many vertebrate and tick species. The ecological relationships between the pathogens, the ticks and the vertebrate carriers have not been analysed. The aim of...

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Autores principales: Estrada-Peña, Agustín, Sprong, Hein, Cabezas-Cruz, Alejandro, de la Fuente, José, Ramo, Ana, Coipan, Elena Claudia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5035442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27662832
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1803-z