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Bats and ticks: host selection and seasonality of bat-specialist ticks in eastern Europe.

Attila D SándorAlexandra CorduneanuÁron PéterAndrei Daniel MihalcaLevente BartiIstván CsőszKrisztina SzőkeSándor Hornok
Published in: Parasites & vectors (2019)
We conclude that bat-specialist ticks show a wide range of adaptations to their hosts, with differences in specificity, seasonality of occurrence, the prevalence and intensity of infestation and all these contribute to a successful division of temporal niches of ticks sharing morphologically similar hosts occurring in geographical sympatry.
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