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Microtomography of the Baltic amber tick Ixodes succineus reveals affinities with the modern Asian disease vector Ixodes ovatus

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, October 2016
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Title
Microtomography of the Baltic amber tick Ixodes succineus reveals affinities with the modern Asian disease vector Ixodes ovatus
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, October 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12862-016-0777-y
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Jason A. Dunlop, Dmitry A. Apanaskevich, Jens Lehmann, René Hoffmann, Florian Fusseis, Moritz Ehlke, Stefan Zachow, Xianghui Xiao

Abstract

Fossil ticks are extremely rare and Ixodes succineus Weidner, 1964 from Eocene (ca. 44-49 Ma) Baltic amber is one of the oldest examples of a living hard tick genus (Ixodida: Ixodidae). Previous work suggested it was most closely related to the modern and widespread European sheep tick Ixodes ricinus (Linneaus, 1758). Restudy using phase contrast synchrotron x-ray tomography yielded images of exceptional quality. These confirm the fossil's referral to Ixodes Latreille, 1795, but the characters resolved here suggest instead affinities with the Asian subgenus Partipalpiger Hoogstraal et al., 1973 and its single living (and medically significant) species Ixodes ovatus Neumann, 1899. We redescribe the amber fossil here as Ixodes (Partipalpiger) succineus. Our data suggest that Ixodes ricinus is unlikely to be directly derived from Weidner's amber species, but instead reveals that the Partipalpiger lineage was originally more widely distributed across the northern hemisphere. The closeness of Ixodes (P.) succineus to a living vector of a wide range of pathogens offers the potential to correlate its spatial and temporal position (northern Europe, nearly 50 million years ago) with the estimated origination dates of various tick-borne diseases.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 6%
Unknown 33 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 8 23%
Researcher 6 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 14%
Student > Master 4 11%
Professor 3 9%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 5 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 31%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 17%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 4 11%
Environmental Science 2 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 6%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 6 17%
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