Diversity and Epidemiological Study of Hard Ticks Infesting Goats and Sheep of Hazara Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Hidayat Ullah1, Sadia Tabassum1, Sultan Ayaz2, Shumaila Noreen1, Atta Ur Rehman1, Naveed Akhtar3, Muhsin Ali3, Zaib Ullah3* and Sajid Mahmood1,4
1Department of Zoology, Hazara University, Mansehra, KP, Pakistan
2Department of Zoology, Abdul Wali Khan University, KP, Pakistan
3Department of Zoology, Hazara University, Sub-Campus Battagram, KP, Pakistan
4Department of Zoology, University of Chakwal, Punjab, Pakistan
Fig. 1.
Goats and sheep breeds wise ticks infestation.
Fig. 2.
Ticks number on goats (A) and sheep (B) in correlation with temperature and humidity.
Fig. 3.
Infestation of ticks on goats and sheep in correlation with temperature and humidity.
Fig. 4.
The Neighbor-Joining phylogenetic tree of current study R. microplus based on ITS2 with worldwide all Rhipicephalus species sequences retrieved from Genbank. Phylogenetic tree constructed with 1000 bootstrap replicates. The evolutionary distance was computed using the Maximum Likelihood method.
Fig. 5.
Phylogenetic relationship of R. haemaphysaloides of Hazara division KP, Pakistan with other ticks sequence based on ITS2 sequences. Phylogenetic tree was constructed by using the Neighbor-Joining method with bootstrap consensus 1000 replicates the evolutionary distance were computed using the Maximum composite likelihood method. Bootstrap consensus values are shown below the branches. The tree was generated by using MEGA X software.
Fig. 6.
Phylogenetic relationship of R. microplus of Hazara division KP, Pakistan with other ticks sequence based on 16SrRNA sequences. Phylogenetic tree was constructed by using the Neighbor-Joining method with bootstrap consensus 1000 replicates the evolutionary distance were computed using the Maximum composite likelihood method. Bootstrap consensus values are shown below the branches. The tree was generated by using MEGA X software.
Fig. 7.
Phylogenetic relationship of R. haemaphysaloides of Hazara division KP, Pakistan with other ticks sequence based on 16SrRNA sequences. Phylogenetic tree was constructed by using the Neighbor-Joining method with bootstrap consensus 1000 replicates the evolutionary distance were computed using the Maximum composite likelihood method. Bootstrap consensus values are shown below the branches. The tree was generated by using MEGA X software.