Dermacentor nuttalli

Su, Si, Hong, Mei, Cui, Meng-Yu, Gui, Zheng, Ma, Shi-Fa, Wu, Lin, Xing, Li-Li, Mu, Lan, Yu, Jing-Feng, Fu, Shao-Yin, Gao, Rui-Juan & Qi, Dong-Dong, 2023, Microbial diversity of ticks and a novel typhus group Rickettsia species (Rickettsiales bacterium Ac 37 b) in Inner Mongolia, China, Parasite (Paris, France) 30 (58), pp. 1-13 : 5

Differences between Dermacentor nuttalli and Ixodes persulcatus

North of the Arshan region is adjacent to the New Barag Left Banner and to the Ewenki Autonomous Banner of Hulun Buir City, close to the Hulun Buir tick collection point. All I. persulcatus came from the Arshan region. In the Hulun Buir area, only D. nuttalli was found. A total of 123 microbial OTUs were found in ticks, and OE diversity indicated that specimens of D. nuttalli contained greater microbial diversity than specimens of I. persulcatus ( Fig. 4 ). Analysis of OTU clusters at the genus level of D. nuttalli and I. persulcatus samples found that their most common bacteria were Acinetobacter , Cutibacterium , Pseudomonas , Ralstonia , Rhodanobacter , Rickettsia and Vibrionimonas ( Fig. 7 ).

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Figure 4. Alpha diversity measures for Dermacentor nuttalli and Ixodes persulcatus in four areas. (a) Shannon’s index. (b) Simpson’s index.

Figure 7. Venn diagram for cluster analysis of OTUs between Dermacentor nuttalli and Ixodes persulcatus (genus level).