Borrelia Ecology and Evolution: Ticks and Hosts and the Environment

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims at advancing knowledge in Borrelia ecology and evolution. As a parasitic pathogen, Borrelia’s ecology is intimately intertwined with vector and host ecology. These, in turn, are vulnerable to alterations in their natural environment introduced through human-induced environmental changes or other phenomena that may lead to changes in (micro)habitat conditions. Some of these are likely to be positive in improving survival conditions for vector and host, but others may be negative and deplete tick and/or host populations. The impact of these changes can be found in tick- or host anbundance, Borrelia infection prevalence in ticks, Borrelia population alterations, which may result in stable or changing risks for humans to acquire the bacteria, possibly resulting in Lyme borreliosis or relapsing fever in humans.

In this Special Issue, we welcome papers on field investigations concerning ticks, hosts and Borrelia, Borrelia host and tick interactions, Borrelia population genetics and genomics.

Dr. Gabriele Margos
Dr. Volker Fingerle
Dr. Anna J Henningsson
Dr. Mateusz Markowicz
Guest Editors

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