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Incidence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Ehrlichia sp., Spiroplasma sp. and Wolbachia sp. DNA in pooled and single Ixodes ricinus ticks removed from red squirrels and screened by PCR using genus-specific assays.
The host upon which ticks last fed may influence the distribution of Borrelia genospecies in I. ricinus; in the present study, all sampled ticks had last fed on the same host species (red squirrels) although in the case of nymphs, the larval hosts were unknown and could have been red squirrels or other small vertebrates present in the same area. Red squirrels are not present at the locations sampled in the two southern England studies [27,28], whereas they could have hosted at least some of the ticks sampled in one of the Scottish studies [25]. Spirochaetes were isolated from 90/227 ticks removed from red squirrels in Switzerland; of these, 43 were B. afzelii, 33 were B. burgdorferi s.s., four were B. garinii and ten were a mixture of B. afzelii and B. burgdorferi s.s. [6]. Previous studies have reported presence of DNA from B. burgdorferi s.s., B. afzelii and B. garinii in red squirrels in Norway, France and Czech Republic, and from B. afzelii in The Netherlands [7,10,11,12,14]. B. valaisiana has not been reported to infect red squirrels.
B. miyamotoi has been previously reported to occur at very low prevalence in questing I. ricinus collected at several sites in southern and eastern England [27,28,29,30] and in 1/ 153 nymphs removed from humans participating in a long-distance running event in the Scottish Highlands [31]. The very low prevalence of B. miyamotoi found in Brownsea Island ticks is in agreement with these reports. In contrast, 6.7% (3/45) and 13.6% (3/22) of red squirrels tested in The Netherlands and Czech Republic, respectively, were carrying B. miyamotoi DNA [11,14]. Several human cases of B. miyamotoi infection have been reported in mainland Europe, but not as yet in the UK [32].
Much less attention has been focused on screening for members of the Rickettsiales in red squirrels or the ticks infesting them. None of the studies cited above tested ticks removed from red squirrels for presence of Anaplasma spp., Ehrlichia spp., Rickettsia spp. or Neoehrlichia spp., although A. phagocytophilum, but not Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis, was detected in spleen samples from 8.9% (4/45) red squirrels in The Netherlands [11]. A. phagocytophilum, the causative agent of tick-borne fever in domestic ruminants and human granulocytic anaplasmosis [33] has been detected at low prevalence in I. ricinus ticks in many parts of the UK [34,35,36]. In the present study, an overall minimum A. phagocytophilum prevalence of 1.6% was found in I. ricinus removed from red squirrels, with positive ticks at both sites. All the detected variants belong to ecotype I, the most widely-distributed and abundant ecotype in Europe, with a broad host range that includes humans [19] and red squirrels [11]. A variant with a groELS sequence identical to A. phagocytophilum strains HZ [37] and HZ2, involved in human cases in the US, was detected in a tick pool from Brownsea Island.
Although co-infections with multiple pathogenic bacteria have been frequently reported in surveys of questing or host-associated I. ricinus [6,7,31,49], and are considered the norm rather than the exception in continental Europe [50], no pathogen co-infections were detected in single ticks collected at either site in the present study. This could be due to the small sample size, to sampling of ticks being restricted to those infesting red squirrels or, in the case of Brownsea Island, to the particular location of the study site on a small island where the diversity of larval hosts and therefore opportunities for picking up a diverse range of pathogens may be limited.
An interesting by-product of the dissection of live ticks for collection of I. hookeri eggs and larvae was the observation of predominantly hexagonal haemoglobin crystals derived from the host squirrel blood. Pseudo-tetrahedral or pyramidal and flattened pseudo-tetrahedral haemoglobin crystals were described from gut contents of Ornithodoros moubata ticks, Rhodnius prolixus kissing bugs and Xenopsylla cheopis fleas fed on guinea pigs [52,53,54], while rhomboidal and trapezoidal crystals were found in guts of X. cheopis fed on rats [53]. The shape of the haemoglobin crystals appears to depend on the host species, rather than that of the feeding arthropod, as reported previously [53,54]; hexagonal crystals of haemoglobin formed from red squirrel blood were reported more than a century ago [55].
To gain a better understanding of the physiological mechanisms driving synurbanisation, we compared resting metabolic rates (RMR) between wild-caught squirrels from the core area of a major city and squirrels inhabiting a nearby forest. We used a common garden approach, housing both populations in semi-natural outdoor enclosures, measuring MR with nest boxes as metabolic chambers to enable exposure to the same natural climatic fluctuations and to minimize experimental disturbances. We explored mass-specific RMR with regard to ambient temperature, habitat of origin and inter-individual variability. Additionally, to explore the influence of diel cycle, we compared RMR of squirrels during their active (day-time) and non-active (night-time) phases. The results of our study will advance the knowledge on physiological plasticity in the Eurasian red squirrel. Moreover, our work on urban ecophysiology contributes to the understanding of physiological demands and possible constraints or benefits for wildlife in highly urbanised habitats in general.
We found that forest individuals showed a steeper slope of metabolic regulation, indicating a higher thermal sensitivity of RMR compared to urban squirrels. This supports previous findings of cold adaptation or temperature compensation in populations from colder climates, expressed by a higher RMR or a steeper relationship of RMR to Ta55. Conversely, the apparently lower responsiveness of the urban squirrels indicates metabolic acclimatization to the warmer, local urban microclimate. Besides warmer Ta, urban habitats display smaller diurnal urban Ta ranges56,57, which might have further contributed to the lower responsiveness in urban squirrel. Changes in MR driven by the thermal environment are usually closely linked to changes in thermal conductance, i.e., differences in insulation58. We assume that the urban squirrels differed in insulation-effective body components, e.g., in fur density or body fat compared to their forest counterparts. Seasonal changes in fur density have been documented in semi-urban squirrels34. Higher Ta combined with more stable resource availability leads to a buffering of seasonality in urban habitats8 and this might lead to different fur densities in urban vs forest squirrels. Interestingly, urban and rural bird nestlings differ in their number of feathers59 and similar insulation effective differences might occur in mammals. 041b061a72