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Description of the female, nymph and larva and mitochondrial genome, and redescription of the male of Ixodes barkeri Barker, 2019 (Acari: Ixodidae), from the short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus, with a consideration of the most suitable subgenus for this tick

BACKGROUND: Ixodes barkeri, a tick with a distinctive ventrolateral horn-like projection on palpal segment 1, was described in 2019 from two male ticks from the Wet Tropics of Far North Queensland, Australia. However, females lie at the core of the taxonomy and subgenus classification of Ixodes; hen...

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Autores principales: Barker, Dayana, Kelava, Samuel, Shao, Renfu, Seeman, Owen D., Jones, Malcolm K., Nakao, Ryo, Barker, Stephen C., Apanaskevich, Dmitry A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8974234/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35365195
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-022-05165-2