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Birds as hosts of ixodid ticks (Acarina, Ixodidae)

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rophic relations between ixodid ticks of the world fauna parasitizing as adults on birds are analyzed. These ticks include 60 out of 650 species of the family Ixodidae and belong to the genera Ixodes, Haemaphysalis, and Amblyomma. Relations between birds and ticks of the genus Ixodes are most ancient. Colonial marine birds seem to be the first hosts of ixodid ticks in the class of birds. Trophic specialization of ticks is not associated with bird taxa, because in most cases no tick specificity is caused by either phylogenetic features of hosts, or specific environmental conditions.

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Original Russian Text © G.V. Kolonin, 2008, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2008, Vol. 87, No. 11, pp. 1402–1405.

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Kolonin, G.V. Birds as hosts of ixodid ticks (Acarina, Ixodidae). Entmol. Rev. 88, 1012–1015 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873808080150

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