An assessment of genetic differences among ixodid ticks in a locus within the nuclear large subunit ribosomal RNA gene

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 25, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 243-248

  Anstead, Clare A ^a   Krakowetz, Chantel N ^a   Mann, Anish S ^a   Sim, Kathrin A ^a,b   Chilton, Neil B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

D3 domain; Fungal contamination; Genetic variation; Ixodid ticks; Nuclear large subunit ribosomal DNA; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

LARGE SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; DERMACENTOR; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TICK;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, LARGE; RNA FOLDING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICKS;

DERMACENTOR; IXODES; IXODIDA;

EID: 80055075461     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: 10961194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Estrada-Peña A., Jongejan F. Ticks feeding on humans: a review of records on human-biting Ixodoidea with special reference to pathogen transmission. Expt Appl Acarol 1999, 23:685-715.
2. Andrews R.H., Chilton N.B., Beveridge I., Spratt D., Mayrhofer G. Genetic markers for the identification of three Australian tick species at various stages in their life cycles. J Parasitol 1992, 78:366-368.
3. Jackson J., Chilton N.B., Beveridge I., Morris M., Andrews R.H. Genetic variation within the ticks Ixodes holocyclus and Ixodes cornuatus from south-eastern Australia. Int J Parasitol 2000, 30:1159-1166.
4. Andrews R.H., Beveridge I., Bull C.M., Chilton N.B., Dixon B., Petney T.N. Systematic status of Aponomma tachyglossi Roberts (Acarina: Ixodidae) from echidnas, Tachyglossus aculeatus, from Queensland, Australia. Syst Appl Acarol 2006, 11:23-39.
5. Anderson J.M., Ammerman N.C., Norris D.E. Molecular differentiation of metastriate tick immatures. Vector-borne Zoo Dis 2004, 4:334-342.
6. Poucher K.L., Hutcheson H.J., Keirans J.E., Durden L.A., Black W.C. Molecular genetic key for the identification of 17 Ixodes species of the United States (Acari: Ixodidae): a methods model. J Parasitol 1999, 85:623-629.
7. Mtambo J., Madder M., Van Bortel W., Berkvens D., Backeljau T. Rhipicephalus appendiculatus and R. zambeziensis (Acari: Ixodidae) from Zambia: a molecular reassessment of their species status and identification. Exp Appl Acarol 2007, 41:115-128.
8. Guglielmone A.A., Venzal J.M., González-Acuña D., Nava S., Hinojosa A., Mangold A.J. The phylogenetic position of Ixodes stilesi Neumann, 1911 (Acari: Ixodidae): morphological and preliminary molecular evidences from 16S rDNA sequences. Syst Parasitol 2006, 65:1-11.
9. Dergousoff S.J., Chilton N.B. Differentiation of three species of ixodid tick, Dermacentor andersoni, D. variabilis and D. albipictus, by PCR-based approaches using markers in ribosomal DNA. Mol Cell Probes 2007, 21:343-348.
10. Krakowetz C.N., Dergousoff S.J., Chilton N.B. Genetic variation in the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene of the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae). J Vector Ecol 2010, 35:163-173.
11. Qiu W.-G., Dykhuixen D.E., Acosta M.S., Luft B.J. Geographic uniformity of the Lyme disease spirochete (Borrelia burgdorferi) and its shared history with tick vector (Ixodes scapularis) in the northeastern United States. Genetics 2002, 160:833-849.
12. Black W.C., Piesman J. Phylogeny of hard- and soft-tick taxa (Acari: Ixodida) based on mitochondrial 16S rDNA sequences. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1994, 91:10034-10038.
13. Klompen J.S.H., Black W.C., Keirans J.E., Norris D.E. Systematics and biogeography of hard ticks, a total evidence approach. Cladistics 2000, 16:79-102.
14. Wheeler W.C., Hayashi C.Y. The phylogeny of the extant chelicerate orders. Cladistics 1998, 14:173-192.
15. Maraun M., Heethoff M., Schneider K., Scheu S., Weigmann G., Cianciolo J., et al. Molecular phylogeny of oribatid mites (Oribatida, Acari): evidence for multiple radiations of parthenogenetic lineages. Expt Appl Acarol 2004, 33:183-201.
16. McLain D.K., Li J., Oliver J.H. Interspecific and geographical variation in the sequence of rDNA expansion segment D3 of Ixodes ticks (Acari: Ixodidae). Heredity 2001, 86:234-242.
17. Maraun M., Heethoff M., Scheu S., Norton R.A., Weigmann G., Thomas R.H. Radiation in sexual and parthenogenic oribatid mites (Oribatida, Acari) as indicated by genetic divergence of closely related species. Expt Appl Acarol 2003, 29:265-277.
18. McLain D.K. Evolution of transcript structure and base composition of rDNA expansion segment D3 in ticks. Heredity 2001, 87:544-557.
19. Gasser R.B., Hu M., Chilton N.B., Campbell B.E., Jex A.J., Otranto D., et al. Single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) for the analysis of genetic variation. Nat Protocols 2006, 1:3121-3128.
20. Wuyts J., De Rijk P., Van De Peer Y., Winkelmans T., De Wachter R. The European large subunit ribosomal RNA database. Nucleic Acids Res 2001, 29:175-177.
21. Swofford DL. PAUP: phylogenetic analysis using parsimony, version 4.0b2. Computer program distributed by Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers, Sunderand, Massachusetts, 1999.
22. Klompen H., Lekveishvili M., Black W.C. Phylogeny of parasitiform mites (Acari) based on rRNA. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2007, 43:936-951.
23. Mallatt J., Giribet G. Further use of nearly complete 28S and 18S rRNA genes to classify Ecdysozoa: 37 more arthropods and a kinorhynch. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2006, 40:772-794.
24. Hoogstraal H., Aeschlimann A. Tick-host specificity. Bull Soc Entomol Suisse 1982, 55:5-32.