Phylogeographic Structure in Penguin Ticks across an Ocean Basin Indicates Allopatric Divergence and Rare Trans-Oceanic Dispersal.
The association of ticks (Acarina) and seabirds provides an intriguing system for assessing the influence of long-distance dispersal on the evolution of parasitic species.Recent research has focused on host-parasite evolutionary relationships and dispersal capacity of ticks parasitising flighted seabirds.Evolutionary research on the ticks of non-fl