Projected effects of climate change on tick phenology and fitness of pathogens transmitted by the North American tick Ixodes scapularis

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 254, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 621-632

  Ogden, N H ^a,b   Bigras Poulin, M ^b   Hanincova K ^c   Maarouf, A ^d   O'Callaghan, C J ^e   Kurtenbach, K ^f  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Climate change; Fitness; Ixodes scapularis; Peromyscus leucopus; Phenology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATHOGEN; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; TICK;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; TICK;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EHRLICHIOSIS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEROMYSCUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

NORTH AMERICA;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 51549112710     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.06.020     Document Type: Article

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