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Worldwide host associations of the tick genus Ixodes suggest relationships based on environmental sharing rather than on co-phylogenetic events
BACKGROUND: This study aims to capture how ticks of the genus Ixodes gained their hosts using network constructs. We propose two alternative hypotheses, namely, an ecological background (ticks and hosts sharing environmentally available conditions) and a phylogenetic one, in which both partners co-e...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9945728/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36810195 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-022-05641-9 |