Morphometric similarity among populations of Rhipicephalus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae) in the north-western region of Colombia
Rhipicephalus microplus is one of the most widely distributed and economically important ticks able to transmit pathogens to vertebrate hosts which cause major constraints to public and livestock health. A better understanding of their population structure is crucial for the development of more effe...
- Autores:
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Durango Manrique, Yésica Sidney
Gutiérrez Builes, Lina Andrea
Gómez García, Giovan Fernando
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of investigation
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2020
- Institución:
- Tecnológico de Antioquia
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio Tdea
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:dspace.tdea.edu.co:tdea/3035
- Acceso en línea:
- https://dspace.tdea.edu.co/handle/tdea/3035
- Palabra clave:
- Rhipicephalus microplus
Morfometría
Morphometrics
Morphométrie
Organismos patógenos
Pathogens
Agent pathogène
Agente patogénio
Ganado
Livestock
Bétail
Gado
Estructuras anatómicas
Anatomical structures
Structure anatomique
Garrapatas
Ticks
Carrapatos
Tiques
Riesgo a la Salud
Health Risk
Risco à Saúde Humana
Risque de Santé
Personas
Persons
Pessoas
Personnes
- Rights
- closedAccess
- License
- http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb
| Summary: | Rhipicephalus microplus is one of the most widely distributed and economically important ticks able to transmit pathogens to vertebrate hosts which cause major constraints to public and livestock health. A better understanding of their population structure is crucial for the development of more effective control strategies. Modern morphometrics has enabled the quantification of size and shape variations to investigate population differences in anatomical structures. We therefore applied landmark-based and outline-based geometric morphometric approaches to study 85 field-collected adult females of three R. microplus Colombian populations along a distance of 28–67 km using the scutum and the basis capituli. Although size differences were found between some populations, mean shape and metric disparity of the analyzed structures were very similar, resulting in low classification scores (<41%). Thus, both structures support a metapopulation of R. microplus at a microgeographic level. The variance of shape between structures does not co-vary, likely indicating morphological modularity. These data provide first clues to understand the metric variation of R. microplus among natural populations from north-western Colombia. |
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