Open AccessPhylogeographic Relationships of Zxodes Uriae (Acari: Ixodidae) and Their Significance to Transequatorial Dispersal of Borrelia Garinii
Author(s) -
Gylfe Åsa,
Yabuki Mihe,
Drotz Marcus,
Bergström Sven,
Fukunaga Masahito,
Olsen Bjorn
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
hereditas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1601-5223
pISSN - 0018-0661
DOI - 10.1111/j.1601-5223.2001.00195.x
Subject(s) - ixodidae , borrelia garinii , biology , acari , borrelia , biological dispersal , zoology , tick , ecology , borrelia afzelii , lyme disease , genetics , borrelia burgdorferi , population , demography , virology , sociology , antibody
The seabird tick Ixodes uriue (Acari: Ixodidae) has a bi‐ and circumpolar distribution and is commonly infected with Lyme disease Borrelia. Identical Borrelia flagellin gene sequences have been detected in I. uriue from both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, suggesting a transequatorial transport of Borreliu. Parsimony analysis of the internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) and a part of 16S rDNA of I. uriae from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres indicated that northern and southern I. uriue might be reproductively separated. We hypothesize that Borrelia is probably not dispersed from one hemisphere to the other by ticks attached to seabirds.