OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Experimental and Applied Acarology is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Botanical acaricides and repellents in tick control: current status and future directions	46
Atlas of ticks (Acari: Argasidae, Ixodidae) in Germany	28
Vectors of disease at the northern distribution limit of the genus Dermacentor in Eurasia: D. reticulatus and D. silvarum	26
Tick species from Africa by migratory birds: a 3-year study in Italy	22
Toxicity, repellency and anti-cholinesterase activities of thymol-eucalyptus combinations against phenotypically resistant Rhipicephalus annulatus ticks	21
Inventory of Varroa destructor susceptibility to amitraz and tau-fluvalinate in France	18
Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of Amblyomma ovale, comparative analyses and phylogenetic considerations	18
Effects of the essential oil from Cymbopogon citratus on mortality and morphology of the tick Haemaphysalis longicornis (Acari: Ixodidae)	17
Long-term monitoring of the seasonal density of questing ixodid ticks in Vienna (Austria): setup and first results	17
Metabolic rate and resource depletion in the tick Ixodes ricinus in response to temperature	16
One out of ten: low sampling efficiency of cloth dragging challenges abundance estimates of questing ticks	16
Acaricide resistance status and identification of resistance mutations in populations of the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae from Ethiopia	16
Comparing four methods of rearing Varroa destructor in vitro	15
Dermanyssus gallinae and chicken egg production: impact, management, and a predicted compatibility matrix for integrated approaches	14
High-quality alternative food reduces cannibalism in the predatory mite Amblyseius herbicolus (Acari: Phytoseiidae)	14
Using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry to identify ticks collected on domestic and wild animals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo	14
Ectoparasites of small mammals in a fragmented area of the southern Amazonia: interaction networks and correlations with seasonality and host sex	14
Variation in trophic niches of oribatid mites in temperate forest ecosystems as indicated by neutral lipid fatty acid patterns	14
Evaluation of the effect of strip intercropping green bean/garlic on the control of Tetranychus urticae in the field	13
Ticks and tick-borne Rickettsia in El Salvador	13
Correlation between Rhipicephalus microplus ticks and Anaplasma marginale infection in various cattle breeds in Brazil	13
The potential of Allium sativum and Cannabis sativa extracts for anti-tick activities against Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus	13
Varroa destructor mite electrophysiological responses to honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony volatiles	12
Molecular detection of Rickettsia spp. in ticks and fleas collected from rescued hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) in Portugal	12
Validating a common tick survey method: cloth-dragging and line transects	12

Molecular phylogeny of the phytoparasitic mite family Phytoptidae (Acariformes: Eriophyoidea) identified the female genitalic anatomy as a major macroevolutionary factor and revealed multiple origins	12
Association of mechanical cleaning and a liquid preparation of diatomaceous earth in the management of poultry red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae (Mesostigmata: Dermanyssidae)	12
A novel defensin-like peptide contributing to antimicrobial and antioxidant capacity of the tick Dermacentor silvarum (Acari: Ixodidae)	11
Molecular epidemiology of Theileria annulata infection of cattle in Layyah District, Pakistan	11
Seasonal dynamics of Amblyomma sculptum in two areas of the Cerrado biome midwestern Brazil, where human cases of rickettsiosis have been reported	11
Genetic diversity of Rickettsia africae isolates from Amblyomma hebraeum and blood from cattle in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa	11
In vitro diagnosis of resistance of the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus to fipronil in Argentina	11
In vitro acaricidal activity of green synthesized nickel oxide nanoparticles against the camel tick, Hyalomma dromedarii (Ixodidae), and its toxicity on Swiss albino mice	11
Genetic analysis and screening of pyrethroid resistance mutations in Varroa destructor populations from Turkey	10
A comprehensive and cost-effective approach for investigating passive dispersal in minute invertebrates with case studies of phytophagous eriophyid mites	10
Prevalence of poultry red mite (Dermanyssus gallinae) in Korean layer farms and the presence of avian pathogens in the mite	10
Mutual relations between jasmonic acid and acibenzolar-S-methyl in the induction of resistance to the two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) in apple trees	10
Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) parasitizing migrating and local breeding birds in Finland	10
RNAi of the nuclear receptor HR3 suggests a role in the molting process of the spider mite Panonychus citri	10
Evaluation of spray applications of Metarhizium anisopliae, Metarhizium brunneum and Beauveria bassiana against larval winter ticks, Dermacentor albipictus	10
Lethal and sublethal effects of emamectin benzoate on life-table and physiological parameters of citrus red mite, Panonychus citri	10
Physiological responses of plants and mites to salicylic acid improve the efficacy of spirodiclofen for controlling Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae) on greenhouse tomatoes	9
Molecular detection and genetic identification of Wolbachia endosymbiont in Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Acari: Ixodidae) ticks of Taiwan	9
Parasitism, seasonality, and diversity of trombiculid mites (Trombidiformes: Parasitengona, Trombiculidae) infesting bats (Chiroptera) in Poland	9
Pyrethroid target-site resistance mutations in populations of the honey bee parasite Varroa destructor (Acari: Varroidae) from Flanders, Belgium	9
Feeding design in free-living mesostigmatid chelicerae (Acari: Anactinotrichida)	9
The climate niche of the invasive tick species Hyalomma marginatum and Hyalomma rufipes (Ixodidae) with recommendations for modeling exercises	9
Molecular investigation of Rickettsia spp. and Francisella tularensis in ticks from three provinces of Turkey	9
Molecular detection of Rickettsia species in ticks collected in the Mexico-USA transboundary region	9
Acaricidal activity of the essential oil from Senecio cannabifolius and its constituents eucalyptol and camphor on engorged females and larvae of Rhipicephalus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae)	8
Effect of low temperature and relative humidity on reproduction and survival of the tick Rhipicephalus microplus	8
Reproductive output and larval survival of American dog ticks (Dermacentor variabilis) from a population at the northern distributional limit	8
Associations between different Laelapidae (Mesostigmata: Dermanyssoidea) mites and small rodents from Lithuania	8
Can supplementary pollen feeding reduce varroa mite and virus levels and improve honey bee colony survival?	8
Molecular screening of Anaplasmataceae in ticks collected from cattle in Corsica, France	8
Plant-feeding may explain why the generalist predator Euseius stipulatus does better on less defended citrus plants but Tetranychus-specialists Neoseiulus californicus and Phytoseiulus persimilis do n	8
Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l., Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia spp. in Dermacentor reticulatus ticks found within the city of Białystok, Poland—first data	8
Molecular detection of pathogens in ticks associated with domestic animals from the Colombian Caribbean region	8
Host movement and time of year influence tick parasitism in Pantanal birds	7
Bacterial microbiota analysis demonstrates that ticks can acquire bacteria from habitat and host blood meal	7
The G126S substitution in mitochondrially encoded cytochrome b does not confer bifenazate resistance in the spider mite Tetranychus urticae	7
Morphological abnormalities in ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from domestic animal species in Sudan	7
Sharing a bed with mites: preferences of the house dust mite Dermatophagoides farinae in a temperature gradient	7
Molecular phylogenetic analyses reveal a deep dichotomy in the conifer-inhabiting genus Trisetacus (Eriophyoidea: Nalepellidae), with the two lineages differing in their female genital morphology and	7
Rickettsia africae infection rates and transovarial transmission in Amblyomma hebraeum ticks in Mnisi, Bushbuckridge, South Africa	7
New records of soft ticks (Acari: Argasidae) in the Caatinga biome of Brazil, with a phylogenetic analysis of argasids using the nuclear Histone 3 (H3) gene	7
Acaricidal activity of Artemisia herba-alba and Melia azedarach oil nanoemulsion against Hyalomma dromedarii and their toxicity on Swiss albino mice	7
Temperature-dependent development and survival of an invasive genotype of wheat curl mite, Aceria tosichella	7
Ixodes ricinus and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in the Royal Parks of London, UK	7
Detection of Rickettsia felis in ectoparasites collected from domestic animals	7
A new approach to monitor and assess the damage caused by two-spotted spider mite	7
Lack of specialist nidicoles as a characteristic of mite assemblages inhabiting nests of the ground-nesting wood warbler, Phylloscopus sibilatrix (Aves: Passeriformes)	7
Tick-borne pathogens in Dermacentor reticulatus collected from dogs in eastern Poland	6
Repellency and toxicity of a CO2-derived cedarwood oil on hard tick species (Ixodidae)	6
Modeling of historical and current distributions of lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae), is consistent with ancestral range recovery	6

Electrotarsogram responses to synthetic odorants by Varroa destructor, a primary parasite of western honey bees (Apis mellifera)	6
Fatty acid metabolism in an oribatid mite: de novo biosynthesis and the effect of starvation	6
Genetic diversity and phylogenetic analyses of ixodid ticks infesting cattle in northeast Thailand: the discovery of Rhipicephalus microplus clade C and the rarely detected R. haemaphysaloides	6
Using convolutional neural networks for tick image recognition – a preliminary exploration	6
Fenpyroximate resistance in Iranian populations of the European red mite Panonychus ulmi (Acari: Tetranychidae)	6
Rickettsia parkeri (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae) detected in Amblyomma maculatum ticks collected on dogs in Tabasco, Mexico	6
Tick species from cattle in the Adama Region of Ethiopia and pathogens detected	6
Rearing of Hyalomma marginatum (Acarina: Ixodidae) under laboratory conditions in Morocco	6
Shift in the seasonality of ixodid ticks after a warm winter in an urban habitat with notes on morphotypes of Ixodes ricinus and data in support of cryptic species within Ixodes frontalis	6
Wolbachia and Spiroplasma could influence bacterial communities of the spider mite Tetranychus truncatus	6
A checklist and key to the tick fauna (Acari: Ixodidae, Argasidae) of Pulau Tioman, Malaysia	6
Multi‐country investigation of the diversity and associated microorganisms isolated from tick species from domestic animals, wildlife and vegetation in selected african countries	6
Spotted fever group Rickettsia and Borrelia sp. cooccurrence in Amblyomma sculptum in the Midwest region of Brazil	6
Dispersal patterns of oribatid mites across habitats and seasons	6
Molecular detection of Rickettsia species and host associations of Laelaps mites (Acari: Laelapidae) in Taiwan	6
Determination of resistance status to amitraz in the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus from Luzon, Philippines, through bioassay and molecular analysis	5
Reproductive incompatibility between Amblyomma maculatum (Acari: Ixodidae) group ticks from two disjunct geographical regions within the USA	5
Repellent and acaricidal activities of basil (Ocimum basilicum) essential oils and rock dust against Ixodes scapularis and Dermacentor variabilis ticks	5
Molecular characterization, expression, and function of Vitellogenin genes in Phytoseiulus persimilis	5
Management of the poultry red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae, using silica-based acaricides	5
Immature ticks on wild birds and the molecular detection of a novel Rickettsia strain in the Ibitipoca State Park, southeastern Brazil	5
The generalist predatory mite Anystis baccarum (Acari: Anystidae) as a new biocontrol agent for western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)	5
Evaluation of acaricidal resistance status of Rhipicephalus microplus ticks from the hilly state (Uttarakhand) of India and evaluation of efficacy of a natural formulation for the management of resist	5
A case of gynandromorphism in Rhipicephalus sanguineus s.l. from Mexico	5
Ornithodoros capensis sensu stricto (Ixodida: Argasidae) in Coiba National Park: first report for Panama, with notes on the O. capensis group in Panamanian shores and Costa Rica	5
Effects of B-azolemiteacrylic on life-history traits and demographic parameters of two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae)	5
Diversity of ticks and detection of Rickettsia amblyommatis infecting ticks on wild birds in anthropogenic landscapes in Bahia state, northeast Brazil	5
Development of abamectin resistance in Tetranychus urticae in Australian cotton and the establishment of discriminating doses for T. lambi	5
First rhyncaphytoptine mite (Eriophyoidea, Diptilomiopidae) parasitizing American hazelnut (Corylus americana): molecular identification, confocal microscopy, and phylogenetic position	5
Molecular characterization of Cardinium, Rickettsia, Spiroplasma and Wolbachia in mite species from citrus orchards	5
Maps of ticks (Acari: Argasidae, Ixodidae) for Austria and South Tyrol, Italy	5
Review: predatory soil mites as biocontrol agents of above- and below-ground plant pests	5
Molecular characterization of phytoseiid mites in Turkey based on the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, with a new record for the country	5