• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...