000095409 001__ 95409 000095409 005__ 20210902121755.0 000095409 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1038/s41598-020-66400-3 000095409 0248_ $$2sideral$$a118600 000095409 037__ $$aART-2020-118600 000095409 041__ $$aeng 000095409 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-7483-046X$$aEstrada-Peña, Agustín$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000095409 245__ $$aA community approach to the Neotropical ticks-hosts interactions 000095409 260__ $$c2020 000095409 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000095409 5203_ $$aThe relationships between ticks and hosts are relevant to capture the ecological background driving the evolution of these parasites. We used a set of 4, 764 records of ticks of the genera Amblyomma, Ixodes, and Haemaphysalis and their hosts in the Neotropics to approach the tick-host relationships using a network-based construct. The network identified 9 clusters of interacting hosts and ticks partially connected by 22 tick species that switch their host range according to their life cycle stage. These links among clusters do not confer an extra resilience to the network following removal of hosts and subsequent cascade extinctions of ticks: the robustness of the network slightly changed when these inter-clusters links are considered. Phylogenetic clustering of ticks to hosts at cluster level was not significant (p > 0.15) but if examined individually 63 tick species/stages (59%) displayed such clustering, suggesting that their hosts have a related phylogenetic background. We interpreted these results under an ecological perspective in which ticks could track its environmental niche associating to vertebrates that would maximize tick survival under the range of abiotic traits. We encourage these integrated analyses to capture the patterns of circulation of tick-transmitted pathogens, a topic still unaddressed in the Neotropical region. 000095409 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 000095409 590__ $$a4.379$$b2020 000095409 591__ $$aMULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES$$b17 / 73 = 0.233$$c2020$$dQ1$$eT1 000095409 592__ $$a1.24$$b2020 000095409 593__ $$aMultidisciplinary$$c2020$$dQ1 000095409 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000095409 700__ $$aNava, Santiago 000095409 700__ $$aTarragona, Evelina 000095409 700__ $$ade la Fuente, José 000095409 700__ $$aGuglielmone, Alberto A. 000095409 7102_ $$11009$$2773$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Patología Animal$$cÁrea Sanidad Animal 000095409 773__ $$g10 (2020), 9269 1-9$$pSci. rep.$$tScientific Reports$$x2045-2322 000095409 8564_ $$s1866334$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/95409/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000095409 8564_ $$s121354$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/95409/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000095409 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:95409$$particulos$$pdriver 000095409 951__ $$a2021-09-02-09:51:23 000095409 980__ $$aARTICLE