Unexpected winter questing activity of ticks in the Central Midwestern United States

• Ram K. Raghavan ,

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

  * E-mail: RaghavanRK@missouri.edu

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Public Health, School of Health Professions, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2657-3398

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• Zoe L. Koestel,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Gunavanthi Boorgula,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

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• Ali Hroobi,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Science, Al-Baha University, Al-Baha, Saudi Arabia

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• Roman Ganta,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine, Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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• John Harrington Jr.,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Independent Researcher, South Bend, WA, United States of America

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• Doug Goodin,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Independent Researcher, South Bend, WA, United States of America

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• Roger W. Stich,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Gary Anderson

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Independent Researcher, South Bend, WA, United States of America, Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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