Microtomography of the Baltic amber tick Ixodes succineus reveals affinities with the modern Asian disease vector Ixodes ovatus

BACKGROUND: Fossil ticks are extremely rare and Ixodes succineus Weidner, 1964 from Eocene (ca. 44–49 Ma) Baltic amber is one of the oldest examples of a living hard tick genus (Ixodida: Ixodidae). Previous work suggested it was most closely related to the modern and widespread European sheep tick I...

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Autores principales: Dunlop, Jason A., Apanaskevich, Dmitry A., Lehmann, Jens, Hoffmann, René, Fusseis, Florian, Ehlke, Moritz, Zachow, Stefan, Xiao, Xianghui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5057450/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27724841
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0777-y

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5057450/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27724841
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0777-y

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