Distribution and genetic variation of Amblyomma triste (Acari: Ixodidae) in Argentina

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 386-390

  Guglielmone, Alberto A ^a   Nava, Santiago ^a   Mastropaolo, Mariano ^b   Mangold, Atilio J ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Amblyomma triste; Argentina; Distribution; Genetic variation; Ixodidae

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

AMBLYOMMA TRISTE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST; HUMIDITY; IXODIDAE; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION REGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; URUGUAY; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; LARVA; MALE; NYMPH; PARASITOLOGY; TICK INFESTATIONS;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA TRISTE; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; IXODIDAE; LARVA; MALE; NYMPH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 84883209854     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2013.01.009     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Abarca K., López J., Acosta-Jamett G., Lepe P., Soares J.F., Labruna M.B. A third Amblyomma species and the first tick-borne rickettsia in Chile. J. Med. Entomol. 2012, 49:219-222.
2. Burkart R., Bárbaro O., Sánchez R.O., Gómez D.A. Eco-regiones de La Argentina 1999, Administración de Parques Nacionales, Secretaría de Recursos Naturales y Desarrollo Sustentables, Buenos Aires, 42 pp.
3. Civitello D.J., Flory S.L., Clay K. Exotic grass invasion reduces survival of Amblyomma americanum and Dermacentor variabilis ticks (Acari: Ixodidae). J. Med. Entomol. 2008, 45:867-872.
4. Debárbora V.N., Nava S., Cirignoli S., Guglielmone A.A., Poi A.S.G. Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) parasitizing endemic and exotic wild mammals in the Esteros del Ibera wetlands, Argentina. Syst. Appl. Acarol. 2012, 17:243-250.
5. Estrada-Peña A., Venzal J.M., Mangold A.J., Cafrune M.M., Guglielmone A.A. The Amblyomma maculatum Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae: Amblyomminae) tick group: diagnostic characters, description of the larva of A. parvitarsum Neumann, 1901, 16S rDNA sequences, distribution and hosts. Syst. Parasitol. 2005, 60:99-112.
6. Guglielmone A.A., Estrada Peña A., Keirans J.E., Robbins R.G. Ticks (Acari: Ixodida) of the Neotropical Zoogeographic Region 2003, International Consortium on Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases (ICTTD-2), Atalanta, Houten, The Netherlands, 173 pp.
7. Guzmán Cornejo C., Pérez T.M., Nava S., Guglielmone A.A. Confirmation of the presence of Amblyomma triste Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae) in Mexico. Syst. Appl. Acarol. 2006, 11:47-50.
8. Hall T.A. BioEdit: a user friendly biological sequence alignment editor and analysis program for windows 95/98/NT. Nucleic Acids Symp. Ser. 1999, 41:95-98.
9. Koch C.L. Systematische Übersicht über die Ordnung der Zecken. Arch. Naturgesch. 1844, 10:217-239.
10. Mangold A.J., Bargues M.D., Mas-Coma S. Mitochondrial 16S rRNA sequences and phylogenetic relationships of Rhipicephalus and other tick genera among Metastriata (Acari: Ixodidae). Parasitol. Res. 1998, 84:478-484.
11. Márquez A., Maldonado J.E., González S., Beccaceci M.D., Garcia J.E., Duarte J.M.B. Phylogeography and Pleistocene demographic history of the endangered marsh deer (Blastocerus dichtomus) from the Río de la Plata basin. Conserv. Genet. 2006, 7:563-575.
12. Mendoza Uribe L., Chávez Chorocco J. Ampliación geográfica de siete especies de Amblyomma (Acari: Ixodidae) y primer reporte de A. oblongoguttatum Koch, 1844 para Perú. Rev. Per. Entomol. 2004, 44:69-72.
13. Mertins J.W., Moorhouse A.S., Alfred J.T., Hutcheson H.J. Amblyomma triste (Acari: Ixodidae): new North American collection records, including the first from the United States. J. Med. Entomol. 2010, 47:536-542.
14. Nava S., Lareschi M., Abba A.M., Beldoménico P.M., Venzal J.M., Mangold A.J., Guglielmone A.A. Larvae and nymphs of Amblyomma tigrinum Koch, 1844 and Amblyomma triste Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae) naturally parasitizing sigmodontinae rodents. Acarologia 2005, 46:135-141.
15. Nava S., Elshenawy Y., Eremeeva M.E., Sumner J.W., Mastropaolo M., Paddock C.D. Rickettsia parkeri in Argentina. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 2008, 14:1894-1897.
16. Nava S., Mangold A.J., Mastropaolo M., Venzal J.M., Fracassi N., Guglielmone A.A. Seasonal dynamics and hosts of Amblyomma triste (Acari: Ixodidae) in Argentina. Vet. Parasitol. 2011, 181:301-308.
17. Racelis A.E., Davey R.B., Goolsby J.A., Pérez de León A.A., Varner K., Duhaime R. Facilitative ecological interactions between invasive species: Arundo donax stands as favorable habitat for cattle ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) along the U.S.-Mexico border. J. Med. Entomol. 2012, 49:410-417.
18. Romer Y., Seijo A.C., Crudo F., Nicholson W.L., Varela-Stokes A., Lash R.R., Paddock C.D. Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis, Argentina. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 2011, 17:1169-1173.
19. Szabó M.P.J., Castro M.B., Ramos H.G.C., Garcia M.V., Castagnolli K.C., Pinter A., Veronez V.A., Magalhães G.M., Duarte J.M.B., Labruna M.B. Species diversity and seasonality of free-living ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in the natural habitat of wild marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus) in Southeastern Brazil. Vet. Parasitol. 2007, 143:147-154.
20. Tamura K., Dudley J., Nei M., Kumar S. MEGA4: molecular evolutionary genetic analysis (MEGA) software version 4.0. Mol. Biol. Evol. 2007, 24:1596-1599.
21. Thompson J.D., Higgins D.G., Gibson T.J. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific penalties weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res. 1994, 22:4673-4680.
22. Venzal J.M., Estrada-Peña A., Castro O., De Souza C.G., Félix M.L., Nava S., Guglielmone A.A. Amblyomma triste Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae): hosts and seasonality of the vector of Rickettsia parkeri in Uruguay. Vet. Parasitol. 2008, 155:104-109.