Rosalino Luís M, Rodrigues Marina, Santos-Silva Margarida, Santos-Reis Margarida
Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Ed. C2, Campo Grande, 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal.
Exp Appl Acarol. 2007;43(4):293-302. doi: 10.1007/s10493-007-9119-5. Epub 2007 Nov 27.
In the course of a study on the diet of two Portuguese carnivores, the red fox (Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus) and the common genet (Genetta genetta Linnaeus), 276 ticks were found inside the 940 scats analyzed. Prevalence in samples was 7.6% for both predators. Association of ticks with prey identified on scats, resulted in new data for Portugal on host-tick interactions [e.g. Ixodes acuminatus (Neumann, 1901) and wood mouse] and tick distribution pattern. These unusual findings, besides shedding some light on the host-tick Portuguese assemblage, revealed scats as a new source of biological information.
在一项关于两种葡萄牙食肉动物——赤狐（赤狐指名亚种）和普通灵猫（普通灵猫指名亚种）饮食的研究过程中，在所分析的940份粪便中发现了276只蜱虫。两种捕食者样本中的蜱虫感染率均为7.6%。蜱虫与粪便中鉴定出的猎物之间的关联，为葡萄牙提供了关于宿主与蜱虫相互作用（如尖硬蜱和林姬鼠）以及蜱虫分布模式的新数据。这些不同寻常的发现，除了为葡萄牙的宿主-蜱虫组合提供了一些线索外，还揭示了粪便作为生物信息新来源的价值。
