Phenology of five tick species in the central Great Plains.

Autor: Ng'eno E; Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America., Alkishe A; Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America., Romero-Alvarez D; Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America.; Faculty of Health Sciences, Emerging and Neglected Diseases, Ecoepidemiology and Biodiversity Research Group, Universidad Internacional SEK (UISEK), Quito, Ecuador., Sundstrom K; College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America., Cobos ME; Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America., Belgum H; Department of Biology, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas, United States of America., Chitwood A; Department of Biology, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma, United States of America., Grant A; College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America., Keck A; Department of Biology, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma, United States of America., Kloxin J; Department of Biology, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma, United States of America., Letterman B; Department of Biology, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas, United States of America., Lineberry M; College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America., McClung K; College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America., Nippoldt S; Department of Biology, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas, United States of America., Sharum S; Department of Biology, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma, United States of America., Struble S; College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America., Thomas B; Department of Biology, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma, United States of America., Ghosh A; Department of Biology, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas, United States of America., Brennan R; Department of Biology, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma, United States of America., Little S; College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America., Peterson AT; Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 May 09; Vol. 19 (5), pp. e0302689. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 09 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0302689
Abstrakt: The states of Kansas and Oklahoma, in the central Great Plains, lie at the western periphery of the geographic distributions of several tick species. As the focus of most research on ticks and tick-borne diseases has been on Lyme disease which commonly occurs in areas to the north and east, the ticks of this region have seen little research attention. Here, we report on the phenology and activity patterns shown by tick species observed at 10 sites across the two states and explore factors associated with abundance of all and life specific individuals of the dominant species. Ticks were collected in 2020-2022 using dragging, flagging and carbon-dioxide trapping techniques, designed to detect questing ticks. The dominant species was A. americanum (24098, 97%) followed by Dermacentor variabilis (370, 2%), D. albipictus (271, 1%), Ixodes scapularis (91, <1%) and A. maculatum (38, <1%). Amblyomma americanum, A. maculatum and D. variabilis were active in Spring and Summer, while D. albipictus and I. scapularis were active in Fall and Winter. Factors associated with numbers of individuals of A. americanum included day of year, habitat, and latitude. Similar associations were observed when abundance was examined by life-stage. Overall, the picture is one of broadly distributed tick species that shows seasonal limitations in the timing of their questing activity.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2024 Ng'eno et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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