Shearwaters and petrels (hereafter petrels) are highly adapted seabirds that occur across all
the world's oceans. Petrels are a threatened seabird group comprising 124 species. They …

Determining patterns of host use, and the frequency at which these patterns change, are of
key importance if we are to understand tick population dynamics, the evolution of tick …

The hard tick family Ixodidae currently comprises 762 species worldwide, but an analysis of
the occurrence of these species in the worlds countries, territories, zoogeographic regions …

Incubating new ideas about avian reproduction/SJ Reynolds & DC Deeming--The fossil
record and evolution of avian egg nesting and incubation/DC Deeming--Nest construction …

Ticks are important vectors for the transmission of pathogens including viruses. The viruses
carried by ticks also known as tick-borne viruses (TBVs), contain a large group of viruses …

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is a newly emerged tick-borne viral
zoonosis and widely prevalent in China, Japan and South Korea. Most reported SFTS cases …

Abstract From June 2011 to August 2014, 21 cases of infection by severe fever with
thrombocytopenia syndrome bunyavirus (SFTSV) were confirmed in Zhoushan Islands in the …

Spatial disease ecology is emerging as a new field that requires the integration of
complementary approaches to address how the distribution and movements of hosts and …

The obligate intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii is the etiological agent of Q fever, a
widespread zoonotic disease whose most common animal reservoirs are domestic …

Modern methods allow a geometric representation of forms, separating size and shape. In
entomology, as well as in many other fields involving arthropod studies, shape variation has …