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Are there 16 species of brown dog ticks? Phylogenies from 60 entire mitochondrial genomes and 162 cox1 sequences reveal 16 species-level clades in the Rhipicephalus (Rhipicephalus) sanguineus group☆☆.
Samuel Kelava, Ryo Nakao, Ben J Mans, Mingeun Cho, Kynan B T Mateo, Alexander W Gofton

Int J Parasitol· September 2025

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Proposing a subgenus Borreliella.
Gabriele Margos, Brian Stevenson, Richard Birtles, Alexander Gofton, Emilie Talagrand-Reboul

Ticks Tick Borne Dis· September 2025

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Two new genera for the Australian species of the subgenus Pavlovskyella Pospelova-Shtrom, 1950 (genus Ornithodoros Koch, 1844) (Acari: Ixodida: Argasidae: Ornithodorinae): Apanaskevichiella gen. nov. for O. (P.) macmillani Hoogstraal & Kohls, 1966; and Australpavlovskyella gen. nov. for O. (P.) gurneyi Warburton, 1926.
Stephen C Barker, Samuel Kelava, Matthew David Shaw, Ernest J M Teo, Alexander Gofton

Zootaxa· August 2025

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Exploring Borrelia in Australia: Isolation, genomic characterisation, and host and vector associations.
Alexander W Gofton, Makenna Short, Michelle Michie, Dakota Gallaway, Ina Smith

Ticks Tick Borne Dis· July 2025

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Borrelia Lineages Adjacent to Zoonotic Clades in Black Flying Foxes (Pteropus alecto), Australia, 2018-2020.
Taylor B Verrett, Caylee A Falvo, Evelyn Benson, Devin N Jones-Slobodian, Daniel E Crowley, Alexander W Gofton

Emerg Infect Dis· July 2025

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Independent lineages from five zoogeographic realms: the mitochondrial genome of Ornithodoros (Pavlovskyella) gurneyi Warburton, 1926 (Acari: Argasidae) confirms paraphyly of the subgenus Pavlovskyella Pospelova-Shtrom, 1950.
Ben J Mans, Samuel Kelava, Bernard M Doube, Matthew D Shaw, Ernest J M Teo, Alexander Gofton

Zootaxa· July 2025

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Molecular characterisation of Australasian Ixodiphagus (Hymenoptera; Encyrtidae; Encyrtinae) reveals unexpected diversity and a potential novel host switch.
Madalene M Giannotta, Ina Smith, Michelle Michie, Kim Blasdell, Mike Dunn, Alexander W Gofton

Int J Parasitol· December 2024

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Tick-borne piroplasms and trypanosomes incidentally detected in eastern grey kangaroos () during a mortality and morbidity event in southern New South Wales, Australia.
Makenna Short, Kira Lowe, Michelle Michie, Ina Smith, Kim Blasdell, Alexander W Gofton

Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl· December 2024

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The first finding of and (Nematoda) in feral fallow deer () in Australia.
Keira Brown, David J Jenkins, Alexander W Gofton, Ina Smith, Nidhish Francis

Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl· August 2024

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Insights from entire mitochondrial genome sequences into the phylogeny of ticks of the genera Haemaphysalis and Archaeocroton with the elevation of the subgenus Alloceraea Schulze, 1919 back to the status of a genus.
Samuel Kelava, Dmitry A Apanaskevich, Renfu Shao, Alexander W Gofton, Ben J Mans

Med Vet Entomol· June 2024

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Author Correction: Unraveling the phylogenetics of genetically closely related species, Haemaphysalis japonica and Haemaphysalis megaspinosa, using entire tick mitogenomes and microbiomes.
Mohamed Abdallah Mohamed Moustafa, Wessam M A Mohamed, Elisha Chatanga, Doaa Naguib, Keita Matsuno, Alexander W Gofton

Sci Rep· June 2024

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Unraveling the phylogenetics of genetically closely related species, Haemaphysalis japonica and Haemaphysalis megaspinosa, using entire tick mitogenomes and microbiomes.
Mohamed Abdallah Mohamed Moustafa, Wessam M A Mohamed, Elisha Chatanga, Doaa Naguib, Keita Matsuno, Alexander W Gofton

Sci Rep· April 2024

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New insights into the molecular phylogeny, biogeographical history, and diversification of Amblyomma ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) based on mitogenomes and nuclear sequences.
Juan E Uribe, Samuel Kelava, Santiago Nava, Andrea P Cotes-Perdomo, Lyda R Castro, Alexander Gofton

Parasit Vectors· March 2024

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The first cryptic genus of Ixodida, Cryptocroton n. gen. for Amblyomma papuanum Hirst, 1914: a tick of North Queensland, Australia, and Papua New Guinea.
Stephen C Barker, Samuel Kelava, Ben J Mans, Dmitry A Apanaskevich, Owen D Seeman, Alexander Gofton

Zootaxa· February 2024

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An invasive human commensal and a native marsupial maintain tick populations at the urban fringe.
Casey L Taylor, Siobhon L Egan, Alexander W Gofton, Peter J Irwin, Charlotte L Oskam

Med Vet Entomol· September 2023

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Characterisation and comparative genomics of three new Varanus-associated Borrelia spp. from Indonesia and Australia.
Alexander William Gofton, Angel Popa-Baez, Ai Takano, Kari Soennichsen, Michelle Michie

Parasit Vectors· September 2023

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A new subgenus, Australixodes n. subgen. (Acari: Ixodidae), for the kiwi tick, Ixodes anatis Chilton, 1904, and validation of the subgenus Coxixodes Schulze, 1941 with a phylogeny of 16 of the 22 subgenera of Ixodes Latreille, 1795 from entire mitochondrial genome sequences.
Stephen C Barker, Samuael Kelava, Allen C G Heath, Owen D Seeman, Dmitry A Apanaskevich, Alexander W Gofton

Zootaxa· August 2023

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A high fidelity approach to assembling the complex Borrelia genome.
Sabrina Hepner, Konstantin Kuleshov, Ave Tooming-Kunderud, Nikolas Alig, Alexander Gofton

BMC Genomics· July 2023

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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, Ben J Mans, Renfu Shao, Dayana Barker, Ernest J M Teo, Alexander W Gofton

Ticks Tick Borne Dis· March 2023

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Metatranscriptomic profiling reveals diverse tick-borne bacteria, protozoans and viruses in ticks and wildlife from Australia.
Alexander W Gofton, Kim R Blasdell, Casey Taylor, Peter B Banks, Michelle Michie

Transbound Emerg Dis· September 2022

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Rejection of the name and all proposed species comb. nov. placed therein.
Gabriele Margos, Santiago Castillo-Ramirez, Sally Cutler, Ram B Dessau, Randi Eikeland, Alexander Gofton

Int J Syst Evol Microbiol· May 2020

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Comment on: Gupta, 2019, distinction between Borrelia and Borreliella is more robustly supported by molecular and phenotypic characteristics than all other neighbouring prokaryotic genera: Response to Margos' et al. "The genus Borrelia reloaded" (PLoS One 13(12): e0208432). PLoS One 14(8):e0221397.
Gabriele Margos, Volker Fingerle, Charlotte Oskam, Brian Stevenson, Alexander Gofton

Ticks Tick Borne Dis· March 2020

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Controversies in bacterial taxonomy: The example of the genus Borrelia.
Gabriele Margos, Volker Fingerle, Sally Cutler, Alexander Gofton, Brian Stevenson

Ticks Tick Borne Dis· March 2020

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Evaluation of 16S next-generation sequencing of hypervariable region 4 in wastewater samples: An unsuitable approach for bacterial enteric pathogen identification.
Telleasha L Greay, Alexander W Gofton, Alireza Zahedi, Andrea Paparini, Kathryn L Linge

Sci Total Environ· June 2019

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Profiling the diversity of Cryptosporidium species and genotypes in wastewater treatment plants in Australia using next generation sequencing.
Alireza Zahedi, Alexander W Gofton, Telleasha Greay, Paul Monis, Charlotte Oskam

Sci Total Environ· December 2018

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