The seabird tick, Ixodes uriae, uses uric acid in penguin guano as a kairomone and guanine in tick feces as an assembly pheromone on the Antarctic Peninsula

Polar Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1445-1451

  Benoit, Joshua B ^a   Lopez Martinez, Giancarlo ^a   Philips, Seth A ^a   Elnitsky, Michael A ^c   Yoder, Jay A ^b   Lee Jr , Richard E ^c   Denlinger, David L ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Assembly pheromone; Host cues; Kairomone; Penguin; Tick

Indexed keywords

FECES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; KAIROMONE; PHEROMONE; SEABIRD; TICK;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; ANVERS ISLAND; PALMER STATION; WEST ANTARCTICA;

IXODES URIAE; IXODIDA; PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 53949114443     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-008-0485-1     Document Type: Article

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