Northward range expansion of Ixodes scapularis evident over a short timescale in Ontario, Canada

• Katie M. Clow ,

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

  * E-mail: kclow@uoguelph.ca

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1618-9998

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• Patrick A. Leighton,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada

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• Nicholas H. Ogden,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada

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• L. Robbin Lindsay,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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• Pascal Michel,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Office of the Chief Science Officer, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• David L. Pearl,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Claire M. Jardine

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathobiology, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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