CEPAVE 05420
CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS PARASITOLOGICOS Y DE VECTORES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Finding of an Ixodid Tick Inside a Late Holocene Owl Pellet From Northwestern Argentina
Autor/es:
SANCHEZ, JULIANA P.; NAVA, SANTIAGO; LARESCHI, MARCELA; ORTIZ, PABLO E.; GUGLIELMONE, ALBERTO A.
Revista:
JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY
Editorial:
AMER SOC PARASITOLOGISTS
Referencias:
Lugar: Kansas; Año: 2010 vol. 96 p. 820 - 822
ISSN:
0022-3395
Resumen:
ABSTRACT: In the present study, we report the earliest record of Ixodes sigelos from the late Holocene in Argentina. The tick was recovered from an owl pellet collected within a small mammal sequence in Las Mascaras Cave, Catamarca, Argentina (27º01´12´´S,66º44´37´´W) and dated at 990 ± 35 cal yr BP. Based on bones also present in the pellet, the tick most-likely parasitized a rodent, identified as an Eligmodontia sp., which had been ingested by the owl.
