Environmental and Molecular Genetic Features of Ixodes persulcatus and I. pavlovskyi Ticks in Southern West Siberia
N. N. LIVANOVA1,2, S. G. LIVANOV1, A. Yu. TIKUNOV2, N. V. FOMENKO2,3, N. V. TIKUNOVA2
1Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, SB RAS, 630091, Novosibirsk, Frunze str., 11
2Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, SB RAS, 630090, Novosibirsk, Lavrent’eva ave., 8
3JSC Vector-Best, 630128, Novosibirsk, Pasechnаya str., 3
Keywords: 16S рРНК, COI, Ixodes persulcatus, Ixodes pavlovskyi, Алтае-Саянская горная страна, Западно-Сибирская равнина, обилие, расселение, 16S rRNA, Ixodes persulcatus, Ixodes pavlovskyi, the Altai-Sayan Mountain Area, nouthern forest-steppe, abundance, resettlement
Abstract
Ixodiae ticks were counted and sampled in six distant locations within the Altai-Sayan Mountain Area and nouthern forest-steppe in 2012. In total, 1829 individuals of I. persulcatus and 719 of I. pavlovskyi were trapped. I. persulcatus was found in all six examined locations and I. pavlovskyi - in the Western Altai, North-Eastern Altai, and Northern Altai, and the forest parks near Novosibirsk’s Academgorodok . In total, 16S rRNA and COI sequences were determined for 144 and 164 I. persulcatus individuals, and for 60 and 55 I. pavlovskyi . Selectively equivalent mutant forms were present in I. pavlovskyi populations of the North-Eastern Altai and Northern Altai. The hydrothermal regime in the forest parks near Novosibirsk is optimal for ticks I. pavlovskyi . These ticks have recently colonized the forest parks near Novosibirsk and therefore are genetically close to I. pavloskyi from the “Altai-Sayan Mountain Area” populations.
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