Infestation of small seabirds by Ornithodoros maritimus ticks : Effects on chick body condition, reproduction and associated infectious agents

Funding This Project was partially funded by the Govern Balear (Acciones Especiales, AAEE031/2017) and the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Universities (RESET, ref: CGL2017-85210-P). ASA was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Universities Innovation and Universities, the Agencia Estatal de Investigación and the European Social Found (RYC-2017- 22796). Data accessibility Data will be available via the Spanish National Research Council data repository. Sanz-Aguilar, A., Payo-Payo, A., Igual, J. M., Rotger, A., Viñas Torres, M., Picorelli, V., 2019. Storm petrel data sets. https://doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/. Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Acknowledgements We thank Esteban Cardona, Oliver Martínez, Raül Luna, Toni Avila, Esther López Marín, Miquel Mas, Enric Real y Santiago de la Vega for their help and support on the colony monitoring. Balearic Islands Government, Sant Josep City Hall, COFIB and Fundación Balearia for their logistic support. Ethical statement This study was authorized by the Reserves des Vedrà es Vedranell i els illots de Ponent, Balearic Government. All aspects of the study were performed according to guidelines established for the ethical treatment of animals and complied with current Spanish regulations. The collection of ticks was authorized by the Balearic Government (Reference: CAP 21/2018).Peer reviewedPostprin