Session 5
Systematics

Programme

• 09:30 – 09:45 15 Min. 0 Min.

  • Short lecture (online)
  • O 049

  What have we learned from the first 630 mitochondrial genomes of ticks and other Acari?

  • Stephen Barker (St Lucia / AU)
• 09:45 – 09:55 10 Min. 0 Min.

  • Short lecture (online)
  • O 050

  Seventy-eight entire mitochondrial genomes and nuclear rRNA genes provide insight into the phylogeny of the hard ticks, particularly the Haemaphysalis species, Africaniella transversale and Robertsicus elaphensis

  • Samuel Kelava (St Lucia / AU)
• 09:55 – 10:05 10 Min. 0 Min.

  • Short lecture
  • O 051

  Borrelia down under: An update on Australia"s unique Borrelia diversity and implications for our understanding of Borrelia evolution.

  • Alexander Gofton (Canberra / AU)
• 10:05 – 10:15 0 Min. 10 Min.

  • Discussion

  Discussion
• 10:15 – 10:25 10 Min. 0 Min.

  • Short lecture
  • O 052

  Phylogenetic relationships of the Amblyomma cajennense complex (Acari: Ixodidae) at mitogenomic resolution

  • Andrea Paola Cotes Perdomo (Bo i Telemark / NO)
• 10:25 – 10:35 10 Min. 0 Min.

  • Short lecture
  • O 053

  Nuttalliella in Burmese amber: Implications for tick evolution

  • Lidia Chitimia-Dobler (Munich / DE)
• 10:35 – 10:40 0 Min. 5 Min.

  • Discussion

  Discussion