• Assessment of habitat suitability for the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus in temperate areas 

      Nava, Santiago; Gamietea, Ignacio José; Morel, Nicolas; Guglielmone, Alberto; Estrada-Peña, Agustín (Elsevier, 2022-07)
      The aim of this research was to analyze and model the aptitude of temperate areas to support permanent populations of the cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus, which is principally distributed in tropical and subtropical ...
    • A community approach to the Neotropical ticks-hosts interactions 

      Estrada-Peña, Agustín; Nava Santiago; Tarragona Evelina Luisa; de la Fuente, José; Guglielmone Alberto (Springer Nature, 2020-06-09)
      The relationships between ticks and hosts are relevant to capture the ecological background driving the evolution of these parasites. We used a set of 4,764 records of ticks of the genera Amblyomma, Ixodes, and Haemaphysalis ...
    • Description of all the stages of Ixodes inopinatus n. sp. (Acari: Ixodidae) 

      Estrada-Peña, Agustín; Nava, Santiago; Petney, Trevor (2014-10)
      All of the parasitic stages of Ixodes inopinatus n. sp. are described from specimens collected by flagging and on lizards and foxes. The new species replaces I. ricinus in dry areas of the Mediterranean region in Spain, ...
    • Divergent environmental preferences and areas of sympatry of tick species in the Amblyomma cajennense complex (Ixodidae) 

      Estrada-Peña, Agustín; Tarragona, Evelina Luisa; Vesco, Umberto; de Meneghi, Daniele; Mastropaolo, Mariano; Mangold, Atilio Jose; Guglielmone, Alberto; Nava, Santiago (2014-12)
      Four species of Neotropical ticks, Amblyomma mixtum, Amblyomma cajennense, Amblyomma tonelliae and Amblyomma sculptum (formerly included in the catch-all name A. cajennense), have an allopatric distribution in much of their ...
    • Evolutionary changes in symbiont community structure in ticks 

      Duron, Olivier; Binetruy, Florian; Noël, Valérie; Cremaschi, Julie; McCoy, Karen D.; Arnathau, Céline; Plantard, Olivier; Goolsby, John; Pérez de León, Adalberto A.; Heylen, Dieter J. A.; Van Oosten, A. Raoul; Gottlieb, Yuval; Baneth, Gad; Guglielmone, Alberto Alejandro; Estrada-Peña, Agustín; Opara, Maxwell N.; Zenner, Lionel; Vavre, Fabrice; Chevillon, Christine (2017-06)
      Ecological specialization to restricted diet niches is driven by obligate, and often maternally inherited, symbionts in many arthropod lineages. These heritable symbionts typically form evolutionarily stable associations ...
    • Exploring the ecological and evolutionary relationships between Rickettsia and hard ticks in the Neotropical region 

      Estrada-Peña, Agustín; Binder, Lina C.; Nava, Santiago; Szabó, Matías P.J.; Labruna, Marcelo B. (Elsevier, 2021-06)
      This study addresses a meta-analysis of the distribution of Rickettsia spp. in the Neotropical region, as well as their associations with ticks and vertebrates. A total of 219 published reports on Rickettsia in ticks in ...
    • Ixodes inopinatus − Occurring also outside the Mediterranean region 

      Chitimia-Dobler, Lidia; Rieß, Ramona; Kahl, Olaf; Wölfel, Silke; Dobler, Gerhard; Nava, Santiago; Estrada-Peña, Agustín (2018-02)
      We report the presence of Ixodes inopinatus and its sympatric occurrence with Ixodes ricinus in southeastern Germany, western Austria, and Romania. The identification of I. inopinatus was based on morphological and molecular ...
    • Low Genetic Diversity of the Only Clade of the Tick Rhipicephalus microplus in the Neotropics 

      Díaz-Sánchez, Sandra; Hernández-Triana, Luis M.; Labruna, Marcelo B.; Merino, Octavio; Mosqueda, Juan; Nava, Santiago; Szabó, Matías P.J.; Tarragona, Evelina Luisa; Venzal, José Manuel; de La Fuente, José; Estrada-Peña, Agustín (MDPI, 2023-11)
      This study addresses the variability of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) and 16S rDNA (16S), and nuclear internal transcriber spacer ITS2 (ITS2) genes in a set of field-collected samples of the cattle ...
    • One health approach to identify research needs on Rhipicephalus microplus ticks in the Americas 

      Estrada-Peña, Agustín; Rodriguez Mallon, Alina; Bermudez, Sergio; Domingos, Ana; Estrada Garcia, Mario Pablo; Labruna, Marcelo B.; Merino, Octavio; Nava, Santiago; Tarragona, Evelina Luisa; Venzal, José Manuel; de La Fuente, José; Mosqueda, Juan; Lleonart Cruz, Ricardo (MDPI, 2022-10)
      We aim to provide a harmonized view of the factors that affect the survival and promote the spread of R. microplus in the Neotropics, approaching its different facets of biology, ecology, distribution, and control. We ...
    • Reestablishment of Rhipicephalus secundus Feldman-Muhsam, 1952 (Acari: Ixodidae) 

      Mumcuoglu, Kosta Y.; Estrada-Peña, Agustín; Tarragona, Evelina Luisa; Sebastian, Patrick Stephan; Guglielmone, Alberto; Nava, Santiago (Elsevier, 2022-03)
      Rhipicephalus secundus is reestablished as a valid tick name within the Rhipicephalus sanguineus group and removed from the synonymy list of Rhipicephalus turanicus. Morphological re-description of both male and female of ...
    • Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille, 1806): Neotype designation, morphological re-description of all parasitic stages and molecular characterization 

      Nava, Santiago; Beati, Lorenza; Venzal, José Manuel; Labruna, Marcelo B.; Szabó, Matías P.J.; Petney, Trevor; Saracho Bottero, Maria Noelia; Tarragona, Evelina Luisa; Dantas-Torres, Filipe; Silva, Maria M. Santos; Mangold, Atilio Jose; Guglielmone, Alberto; Estrada-Peña, Agustín (2018-09)
      The aims of this work were to re-describe all parasitic stages of Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu stricto, to select and deposit a neotype, and to characterize some of its diagnostic molecular traits. A male of R. sanguineus ...
    • Species occurrence of ticks in South America, and interactions with biotic and abiotic traits 

      Estrada-Peña, Agustín; Nava, Santiago; Tarragona, Evelina Luisa; Bermúdez, Sergio; de la Fuente, José; Domingos, Ana; Labruna, Marcelo B.; Mosqueda, Juan; Merino, Octavio; Szabó, Matías P.J.; Venzal, José Manuel; Guglielmone, Alberto (Springer Nature, 2019-12)
      The datasets of records of the distribution of ticks and their hosts are invaluable tools to understand the phylogenetic patterns of evolution of ticks and the abiotic traits to which they are associated. Such datasets ...
    • The taxonomic status of Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille, 1806) 

      Nava, Santiago; Estrada-Peña, Agustín; Petney, Trevor; Beati, Lorenza; Labruna, Marcelo B.; Szabó, Matías P.J.; Venzal, José Manuel; Mastropaolo, Mariano; Mangold, Atilio Jose; Guglielmone, Alberto (2015-02)
      The brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu stricto, is a species with considerable public health and economic importance. However, the taxonomic status of this species is far from resolved. After more than 110 years ...
    • The Known Distribution and Ecological Preferences of the Tick Subgenus Boophilus (Acari: Ixodidae) in Africa and Latin America 

      Estrada-Peña, Agustín; Bouattour, A.; Camicas, J. -L.; Guglielmone, Alberto; Horak, I.; Jongejan, F.; Latif, A.; Pegram, R.; Walker, A.R. (Springer, 2006-02)
      A compilation of the known distribution of Boophilus ticks in Africa and Latin America is presented, together with details on climate preferences. B. annulatus is recorded mainly in the western part of a strip from the ...