Ronel Pienaar

Argasid and ixodid systematics: Implications for soft tick evolution and systematics, with a new argasid species list

Ben J. Mans, Jonathan Featherston, Marija Kvas et al. · Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases · 2018 · 171 citations · Full text

Biology, Soft Tick Evolution, Arthropod Taxonomy +8

Nuttalliella namaqua: A Living Fossil and Closest Relative to the Ancestral Tick Lineage: Implications for the Evolution of Blood-Feeding in Ticks

Ben J. Mans, Daniël de Klerk, Ronel Pienaar et al. · PLoS ONE · 2011 · 110 citations · Full text

Living Fossil, Genetics, Zoological Taxonomy +17

The Mitochondrial Genomes of Nuttalliella namaqua (Ixodoidea: Nuttalliellidae) and Argas africolumbae (Ixodoidae: Argasidae): Estimation of Divergence Dates for the Major Tick Lineages and Reconstruction of Ancestral Blood-Feeding Characters

Ben J. Mans, Daniël de Klerk, Ronel Pienaar et al. · PLoS ONE · 2012 · 82 citations · Full text

Comparative Genomics, Genetics, Major Tick Lineages +20

Nuclear (18S-28S rRNA) and mitochondrial genome markers of Carios (Carios) vespertilionis (Argasidae) support Carios Latreille, 1796 as a lineage embedded in the Ornithodorinae: re-classification of the Carios sensu Klompen and Oliver (1993) clade into its respective subgenera

Ben J. Mans, Samuel Kelava, Ronel Pienaar et al. · Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases · 2021 · 64 citations

Biology, 18S-28s Rrna, Phylogenetics +10

Diversity in the 18S SSU rRNA V4 hyper-variable region of<i>Theileria</i>spp. in Cape buffalo (<i>Syncerus caffer</i>) and cattle from southern Africa

Ben J. Mans, Ronel Pienaar, Abdalla A. Latif et al. · Parasitology · 2011 · 59 citations