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HISTORICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 5, Pages 565-570Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2014.897699
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Ixodidae; Dominican amber; Tertiary hard tick
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Amber preserves microscopic, soft-bodies organisms and is a good medium in which to trace the evolution of pathogen-vector associations. Spirochetes-like cells (Spirochaetales: Spirochaetaceae) in the hemocoel and lumen of the alimentary tract of a larva tick (Amblyomma sp. Arachnida: Ixodidae) in Dominican amber are described in the collective fossil genus and species, Palaeoborrelia dominicanan. gen., n. sp. The size and shape of the fossil spirochetes closely resemble those of present-day Borrelia species. This discovery represents the first record of spirochete-like cells associated with fossil ticks.
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