Ticks associated with macquarie island penguins carry arboviruses from four genera.

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Lee Major, May La Linn, Robert W Slade, Wayne A Schroder, Alex D Hyatt, Joy Gardner, Jeff Cowley, Andreas Suhrbier
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Finch; Finch Creek; King Penguins; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004375; https://doaj.org/article/dd17e9e4766d4bc89e08a639aa2f9093

Macquarie Island, a small subantarctic island, is home to rockhopper, royal and king penguins, which are often infested with the globally distributed seabird tick, Ixodes uriae. A flavivirus, an orbivirus, a phlebovirus, and a nairovirus were isolated from these ticks and partial sequences obtained....