95409 20210902121755.0 doi 10.1038/s41598-020-66400-3 sideral 118600 ART-2020-118600 eng Estrada-Peña, Agustín Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-7483-046X A community approach to the Neotropical ticks-hosts interactions 2020 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The 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. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 4.379 2020 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES 17 / 73 = 0.233 2020 Q1 T1 1.24 2020 Multidisciplinary 2020 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Nava, Santiago Tarragona, Evelina de la Fuente, José Guglielmone, Alberto A. 1009 773 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Patología Animal Área Sanidad Animal 10 (2020), 9269 1-9 Sci. rep. Scientific Reports 2045-2322 1866334 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/95409/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 121354 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/95409/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:95409 articulos driver 2021-09-02-09:51:23 ARTICLE