The blood-sucking tick Ixodes hexagonus reveals dietary stable isotope signatures of mammalian hosts

• Gaia G. Mortier ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: g.mortier@pgr.reading.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, England

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8212-1933

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• Stuart Black,

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

  Affiliation Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, England

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• Andrew C. Kitchener,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, Scotland and School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Katherine A. Sainsbury,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Robbie A. McDonald,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, England

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• Georg Hantke,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, Scotland and School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• M. Alejandra Perotti

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, England

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