Application of DNA barcodes in the genetic diversity of hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in Kazakhstan
Zheng Z. Zeng W. Wang S. Tan W. Lu X. Kairullayev K. Mi L. Hazihan W. Liu G. Yang M. Wang Y.
April 2024Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Experimental and Applied Acarology
2024#92Issue 3547 - 554 pp.
Forty-five tick species have been recorded in Kazakhstan. However, their genetic diversity and evolutionary relationships, particularly when compared to ticks in neighbouring countries, remain unclear. In the present study, 148 mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) sequence data from our laboratory and NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) data were used to address this knowledge gap. Phylogenetic analyses showed that i) Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum (Koch, 1844) ticks from Jambyl Oblast (southeastern Kazakhstan) and Gansu Province (northwestern China) constituted a newly deviated clade; and ii) Dermacentor reticulatus (Fabricius, 1974) ticks from South Kazakhstan Oblast were closer to those in Romania and Turkey. The network diagram of haplotypes showed that i) the H-1 and H-2 haplotypes of Dermacentor marginatus (Sulzer, 1776) ticks from Zhetisu and Almaty were all newly evolved; and ii) the H-3 haplotypes of Haemaphysalis erinacei (Pavesi, 1884) from Almaty Oblast and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (northwestern China) were evolved from the H-1 haplotype from Italy. In the future, more COI data from different tick species, especially from Kazakhstan and neighbouring countries, should be employed in the field of tick DNA barcoding.
DNA barcodes , Genetic diversity , Hard ticks , Kazakhstan
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Department of Basic Medicine, School of Medicine, Shihezi University, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Shihezi City, 832002, China
College of Animal Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Shihezi, 832002, China
The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Shihezi University, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Shihezi City, 832002, China
Biological sciences, Department of Food Engineering, Kazakh National Agrarian University, Almaty Province, Kazakhstan
Department of Forest, College of Agriculture, Shihezi University, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Shihezi City, 832003, China
Department of Basic Medicine
College of Animal Science and Technology
The First Affiliated Hospital
Biological sciences
Department of Forest
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