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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Ticks associated with wild mammals in Ghana
Bulletin of Entomological Research, Volume 95, No. 3, Year 2005
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Description
The host ranges of a collection of 21 tick species found on wild mammals in the savanna, forests and coastal zone of Ghana suggested that most species were adapted to feeding mainly on host species within a single mammalian order, i.e. on artiodactyls (bovids/suids), carnivores, rodents or pholidotes (pangolins). Only a few species were dispersed evenly across a range of orders. Seven out of ten of the most common ticks on forest mammals were significantly associated with a particular host species or a group of closely related host species, which could be viewed as their major host or hosts, but they were also recorded much less frequently on a wide range of host species. Two other species were confined to their major hosts. Only one species appeared to be widely dispersed on forest mammals and to lack a particular major host. The majority of tick species therefore occurred on hosts with very distinctive biological, behavioural and ecological characteristics. The study provided no evidence to support the view that host specificity is an artefact of sampling. Finding that the tick species on Ghanaian wild mammals occurred on particular hosts, as well as in distinct habitats, indicated that tick-host associations are important for tick survival and confirmed the importance of climate and vegetation in tick distribution. © CAB International, 2005.
Authors & Co-Authors
Ntiamoa-Baidu, Yaa
Ghana, Accra
University of Ghana
Switzerland, Zurich
World Wildlife Fund, Schweiz
Carr-Saunders, C.
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh
Matthews, B. E.
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh
Preston, Patricia M.
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh
Walker, Alan R.
United Kingdom, Roslin
The Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies
Statistics
Citations: 15
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1079/BER2004352
ISSN:
00074853
Study Locations
Ghana