Are there 16 species of brown dog ticks? Phylogenies from 60 entire mitochondrial genomes and 162 cox1 sequences reveal 16 species-level clades in the Rhipicephalus (Rhipicephalus) sanguineus group☆☆

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The Rhipicephalus sanguineus group, the brown dog ticks, are cosmopolitan and doubtless the most important ticks of domestic dogs, clinically and economically. Despite four decades of taxonomic enquiry with nucleotide sequences and morphology, the taxonomy of the R. sanguineus group is confused, even chaotic. We provide 13 new mitochondrial (mt) genomes and internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) sequences from nine...

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