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Titel (primär) Variation in body size in the tick complex Rhipicephalus appendiculatus/Rhipicephalus zambeziensis
Autor Speybroeck, N.; Madder, M.; Thulke, H.-H. ORCID logo ; Mtambo, J.; Tirry, L.; Chaka, G.; Marcotty, T.; Berkvens, D.
Quelle Journal of Vector Ecology
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
Department OESA
Band/Volume 29
Heft 2
Seite von 347
Seite bis 354
Sprache englisch
Abstract

We examined the relationship between body size and the phenology of the tick complex Rhipicephalus appendictilatus/Rhipicephalus zambeziensis. These ticks transmit Theileria parva in cattle. In Africa. the body Size of R. appendiculatus increases with latitude while the body size of the morphologically similar Rhipicephalus zambeziensis is constant at two different latitudes. A larger body size is necessary once survival becomes a constraint. The most plausible explanation for the smaller R. appendiculatus in equatorial Africa is the cost to produce a larger egg. The consequences of these findings for the introduction of R. appendiculatus in new environments are discussed. New field observations from southern Zambia indicate that R. appendiculatus body size does not vary seasonally as compared to eastern Zambia. This is an additional indication of the presence of a single diapausing population of larger ticks.

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Speybroeck, N., Madder, M., Thulke, H.-H., Mtambo, J., Tirry, L., Chaka, G., Marcotty, T., Berkvens, D. (2004):
Variation in body size in the tick complex Rhipicephalus appendiculatus/Rhipicephalus zambeziensis
J. Vector Ecol. 29 (2), 347 - 354