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The influence of interspecific competition and host preference on the phylogeography of two African ixodid tick species.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Cangi Nídia, Horak Ivan G, Apanaskevich Dmitry A, Matthee Sonja, das Neves Luís C B G, Estrada-Peña Agustín, Matthee Conrad A
Abstract excerpt
A comparative phylogeographic study on two economically important African tick species, Amblyomma hebraeum and Hyalomma rufipes was performed to test the influence of host specificity and host movement on dispersion. Pairwise AMOVA analyses of 277 mtDNA COI sequences supported significant population differentiation among the majority of sampling sites. The geographic mitochondrial structure was not supported by...
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