About the Authors

Ignacio Ruiz-Arrondo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

irarrondo@riojasalud.es

Affiliation Center of Rickettsiosis and Arthropod-Borne Diseases (CRETAV), Infectious Diseases Department, San Pedro University Hospital-Center for Biomedical Research from La Rioja (CIBIR), Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

Jesús Veiga

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Departamento de Ecología Funcional y Evolutiva, Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (EEZA-CSIC), Almería, Spain, Departmento de Parasitología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain, MEMEG, Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Peter H. Adler

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

Francisco Collantes

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

José A. Oteo

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center of Rickettsiosis and Arthropod-Borne Diseases (CRETAV), Infectious Diseases Department, San Pedro University Hospital-Center for Biomedical Research from La Rioja (CIBIR), Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

Francisco Valera

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Ecología Funcional y Evolutiva, Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (EEZA-CSIC), Almería, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.