Ticks Associated with Macquarie Island Penguins Carry Arboviruses from Four Genera

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Major, Lee, Linn, May La, Slade, Robert W., Schroder, Wayne A., Hyatt, Alex D., Gardner, Joy, Cowley, Jeff, Suhrbier, Andreas
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2009
• Subjects: Research Article; Finch; Finch Creek; King Penguins; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2632750; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19194498; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004375

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....