ArticleParasites & vectors2015
Lyme disease bacterium does not affect attraction to rodent odour in the tick vector.
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- Epizootiological aspects of natural nidality ofVeterinary world · 2022Article
- Infection with Borrelia afzelii and manipulation of the egg surface microbiota have no effect on the fitness of immature Ixodes ricinus ticks.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Masting by beech trees predicts the risk of Lyme disease.Parasites & vectors · 2021Article
- Pathogens Manipulating Tick Behavior-Through a Glass, Darkly.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- No evidence for manipulation of Anopheles gambiae, An. coluzzii and An. arabiensis host preference by Plasmodium falciparum.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Multi-trophic interactions driving the transmission cycle of Borrelia afzelii between Ixodes ricinus and rodents: a review.Parasites & vectors · 2015Review
- Cross-Immunity and Community Structure of a Multiple-Strain Pathogen in the Tick Vector.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2015Article
- Serological signature of tick-borne pathogens in Scandinavian brown bears over two decades.Parasites & vectors · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundVector-borne pathogens experience a conflict of interest when the arthropod vector chooses a vertebrate host that is incompetent for pathogen transmission. The qualitative manipulation hypothesis suggests that vector-borne pathogens can resolve this conflict in their favour by manipulating the host choice behaviour of the arthropod vector.
methodsEuropean Lyme disease is a model system for studying this conflict because Ixodes ricinus is a generalist tick species that vectors Borrelia pathogens that are specialized on different classes of vertebrate hosts. Avian specialists like B. garinii cannot survive in rodent reservoir hosts and vice versa for rodent specialists like B. afzelii. The present study tested whether Borrelia genospecies influenced the attraction of field-collected I. ricinus nymphs to rodent odours.
resultsNymphs were significantly attracted to questing perches that had been scented with mouse odours. However, there was no difference in questing behaviour between nymphs infected with rodent- versus bird-specialized Borrelia genospecies.
conclusionOur study suggests that the tick, and not the pathogen, controls the early stages of host choice behaviour.
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