Eric Ng'eno, Abdelghafar Alkishe, Daniel Romero-Alvarez, Kellee Sundstrom, Marlon E Cobos, Hallee Belgum, Abigail Chitwood, Amber Grant, Alex Keck, Josiah Kloxin, Brayden Letterman, Megan Lineberry, Kristin McClung, Sydney Nippoldt, Sophia Sharum, Stefan Struble, Breanne Thomas, Anuradha Ghosh, Robert Brennan, Susan Little, A Townsend Peterson
The states of Kansas and Oklahoma, in the central Great Plains, lie at the western periphery of the geographic distributions of several tick species. As the focus of most research on ticks and tick-borne diseases has been on Lyme disease which commonly occurs in areas to the north and east, the ticks of this region have seen little research attention. Here, we report on the phenology and activity patterns shown by tick species observed at 10 sites across the two states and explore factors associated with abundance of all and life specific individuals of the dominant species...
2024: PloS One