Tick paralysis in spectacled flying-foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus) in North Queensland, Australia: impact of a ground-dwelling ectoparasite finding an arboreal host.

When a parasite finds a new wildlife host, impacts can be significant. In the late 1980s populations of Spectacled Flying-foxes (SFF) (Pteropus conspicillatus), a species confined, in Australia, to north Queensland became infected by paralysis tick (Ixodes holocyclus), resulting in mortality. This P...

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Autores principales: Petra G Buettner, David A Westcott, Jennefer Maclean, Lawrence Brown, Adam McKeown, Ashleigh Johnson, Karen Wilson, David Blair, Jonathan Luly, Lee Skerratt, Reinhold Muller, Richard Speare
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Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/5c846695e1084c4db8d0e9aec9f11cd1
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