Prevalence of Ixodes ricinus and possible hybrids of I. ricinus and I. inopinatus on the edible dormouse in a Central European woodland

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F25%3A00637710" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/25:00637710 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15310/25:73634001 RIV/62157124:16810/25:43882220 RIV/60460709:41210/25:102465 RIV/00216224:14310/25:00143405

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.14411/fp.2025.022" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.14411/fp.2025.022</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14411/fp.2025.022" target="_blank" >10.14411/fp.2025.022</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Prevalence of Ixodes ricinus and possible hybrids of I. ricinus and I. inopinatus on the edible dormouse in a Central European woodland

Original language description

Ixodes inopinatus Estrada-Pe & ntildea, Nava et Petney, 2014 was described in 2014 from the Iberian Peninsula and later reported from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Germany, Austria and Romania. However, recent studies raised serious doubts about the presence of I. inopinatus in Central Europe and reported hybridisation between the Ixodes ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758) and I. inopinatus. In this study, we selected a locally common rodent host, the edible dormouse Glis glis (Linnaeus) (Rodentia: Gliridae), to study the prevalence of these two tick species and their hybrids in a Central European woodland. The TROSPA nuclear gene and the COI mitochondrial gene were used for tick identification. Overall, 581 dormice were screened and 383 I. ricinus, 17 I. ricinus/inopinatus hybrids and no I. inopinatus were found. Co-infection of I. ricinus and hybrids was found on 11 dormice with the overall prevalence of I. ricinus 28.8% and hybrids 2.5%. Seasonal occurrence of I. ricinus and hybrids reached a peak in August. Edible dormouse males were more frequently infected than females and larvae of both tick taxa greatly outnumbered the nymphs. Detection of a large number of hybrid larvae on this mammal host demonstrates that tick hybridisation likely occurs further north and outside the originally described distribution range of I. inopinatus.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40301 - Veterinary science

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA21-11661S" target="_blank" >GA21-11661S: Comparative ecology and epidemiological significance of Ixodes inopinatus, a newly recognized diseases vector in Central Europe</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Folia Parasitologica

ISSN

0015-5683

e-ISSN

1803-6465

Volume of the periodical

72

Issue of the periodical within the volume

JUL 2025

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

22

UT code for WoS article

001531355600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105012234424