caa a22 4500 388035544 CHVBK 20180307125003.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199808 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0007485300042139 doi S0007485300042139 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0007485300042139 Cumming G.S. Department of Zoology, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK Host preference in African ticks (Acari: Ixodida): a quantitative data set [Elektronische Daten] [G.S. Cumming] Despite the large number of collection rocords available, there has recently been some debate concerning how host-specific ticks are. A quantitative data set is presented for the host preferences of African ticks. The results are based on 43,615 individual collection records from published sources covering most countries in mainland Africa. Out of 223 ticks species, 112 have been collected 20 times or more; 14 of these are generalists and at least 39 are potential specialists. Further collections are needed for greater clarity in many cases. It is important that people working on problems that relate to tick-host interactions are aware of the context in which these occur, lest they make false a prior hypotheses about the importance of hosts or parasites in the system. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Bulletin of Entomological Research Cambridge University Press 88/4(1998-08), 379-406 0007-4853 88:4<379 1998 88 BER https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007485300042139 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007485300042139 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cumming G.S. Department of Zoology, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Bulletin of Entomological Research Cambridge University Press 88/4(1998-08), 379-406 0007-4853 88:4<379 1998 88 BER CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge