Distribution and abundance of the tick Ixodes uriae in a diverse subantarctic seabird community

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-27

  Bergström, Sven ^a   Haemig, Paul D ^a   Olsen, Björn ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; HOST SPECIFICITY; SEABIRD; TICK;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ECTOPARASITE; INFESTATION; IXODES; IXODES URIAE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PENGUIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; FOOT; IXODES; SEALS, EARLESS; TICK INFESTATIONS;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0033049172     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3285694     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. ARTHUR, D. R. 1963. British ticks. Butterworths, London, England, 213 p.
2. BONNER, W. N., AND J. P. CROXALL. 1988. An assessment of environmental impacts arising from scientific research and its logistic support at Bird Island, South Georgia. British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, England, 25 p.
3. CHASTEL, C., J. Y. MONNAT, G. LE-LAY, C. GUIGUEN, M. C. QUILLIEN, AND J. C. BEAUCOURNU. 1981. Studies on Bunyaviridae including Zaliv Terpeniya virus isolated from Ixodes uriae ticks (Acarina: Ixodidae) in Brittany, France. Archives of Virology 70: 357-366.
4. CLIFFORD, C. M. 1979. Tick-borne viruses of seabirds. In Arctic and tropical arboviruses, E. Kurstak (ed.). Academic Press, New York, New York, p. 362-383.
5. DUFFY, D. C. 1989. Ants, ticks and nesting seabirds; dynamic interactions. In Bird-parasite interactions: Ecology, evolution and behaviour, J. E. Loye, and M. Zuk (eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, p, 242-257.
6. ELEY, T. J. 1977. Ixodes uriae (Acari; Ixodidae) from a river otter. Journal of Medical Entomology 13: 506.
7. EVELEIGH, E. S., AND W. THRELFALL. 1974. The biology of Ixodes (Ceratixodes) uriae White, 1852, in Newfoundland. Acarologia 16: 621-635.
8. MEHL, R., AND T. TRAAVIK. 1983. The tick Ixodes uriae (Acari: Ixodides) in seabird colonies in Norway. Fauna Norvegica, Series B 30: 94-107.
9. MURRAY, M. D., AND W. J. M. VESTJENS. 1967. Studies on the ectoparasites of seals and penguins, part III. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 715-725.
10. NUTTALL, P. A. 1984. Tick-borne viruses in seabird colonies. Seabird 7: 31-41.
11. OLSEN, B., T. G. T. JAENSON, J. BUNIKIS, L. NOPPA, AND S. BERGSTRÖM. 1993. Lyme borreliosis cycle in seabirds and Ixodes uriae ticks. Nature 362: 340-342.
12. _, D. C. DUFFY, T. G. T. JAENSON, Å. GYLFE, J. BONNEDAHL, AND S. BERGSTRÖM. 1995. Transhemispheric exchange of Lyme disease spirochetes by seabirds. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 33: 3270-3274.
13. OPRANDY, J. J., T. G. SCHWAN, AND A. J. MAIN. 1988. Tick-borne Kemerovo group orbiviruses in a Newfoundland seabird colony. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 34: 782-786.
14. PRINCE, P. A., AND J. P. CROXALL. 1983. Birds of South Georgia: new records and re-evaluations of status. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin 59: 15-27.
15. _, AND M. R. PAYNE. 1979. Current status of birds at South Georgia. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin 48: 103-118.
16. WILSON, N. 1970. Metastigmata: Ixodidae of South Georgia, Heard and Kerguelen. Pacific Insect Monographs 23: 78-88.