Orkun, Ă–mer http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4478-2521
Emir, Hasan
Article History
Received: 16 March 2020
Accepted: 9 July 2020
First Online: 18 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for care and use of wild animals were followed. Two gray wolves that ticks were collected in this study are subject as part of the national wild animals monitoring program conducted by the General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks of Turkey with the approval number 2014/6841. Additionally, a tortoise investigated in this study was found to be infested by ticks during a field study and this tortoise was then released into the same place at the same time just after removed their ticks. Only tick samples were collected from live animals and no other medical intervention (such as blood or tissue collections) was undertaken on these animals for this study.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict and interest.