Researcher
Dieter Heylen
- Keywords:Biology
- Disciplines:Animal biology, Bioinformatics and computational biology, Ecology, Evolutionary biology , General biology, Genetics, Microbiology, Molecular and cell biology, Plant biology, Systems biology, Other biological sciences, Other natural sciences
Affiliations
- Evolutionary ecology group (EVECO) (Research group)
Member
From1 Jan 2008 → Today
Projects
1 - 8 of 8 results
- Prioritizing Lyme borreliosis risk areas for forest and nature management based on novel insights in tick ecology.From1 Jan 2019 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Identification of Lyme borreliosis risk areas for forest and nature management based on novel insights in tick ecology.From1 Jan 2018 → 31 Dec 2018Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- Individual variation and evolutionary potential of parasite traits in a songbird-tick system: direct and indirect genetic effects.From1 Jan 2017 → 31 Dec 2020Funding: FWO research project
- Transmission cycles of tick-borne Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. and rickettsial bacteria in a songbird tick communityFrom1 Feb 2015 → 31 Dec 2015Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- Transmission dynamics of tick-borne Borrelia and rickettsial bacteria in a songbird tick community.From1 Jan 2015 → 31 Dec 2017Funding: FWO research grant KAN
- Transmission dynamics of tick-borne Borrelia and rickettsial bacteria in a songbird tick community.From1 Oct 2014 → 30 Sep 2017Funding: FWO fellowships
- Borrelia infections in songbirds and bird-specialized ticksFrom1 Jan 2012 → 31 Dec 2012Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- Host-parasite interactions between resident songbirds, ixodid ticks and Borrelia spirocheten.From1 Oct 2011 → 30 Sep 2014Funding: FWO fellowships
Publications
1 - 10 of 46 results
- Ticks and tick-borne diseases in the city(2019)
Authors: Dieter Heylen, Robin Lasters, Frank Adriaensen, M. Fonville, H. Sprong, Erik Matthysen
Pages: 941 - 949 - Year-to-year variation in the density of **Ixodes ricinus** ticks and the prevalence of the rodent-associated human pathogens **Borrelia afzelii** and **B. miyamotoi** in different forest types(2018)
Authors: Sanne C. Ruyts, Wesley Tack, Evy Ampoorter, Elena C. Coipan, Erik Matthysen, Dieter Heylen, Hein Sprong, Kris Verheyen
Pages: 141 - 145 - Low probability of a dilution effect for Lyme borreliosis in Belgian forests(2018)
Authors: Sanne C. Ruyts, Dries Landuyt, Evy Ampoorter, Dieter Heylen, Steffen Ehrmann, Elena C. Coipan, Erik Matthysen, Hein Sprong, Kris Verheyen
Pages: 1143 - 1152 - Isolated populations of **Ixodes lividus** ticks in the Czech Republic and Belgium host genetically homogeneous **Rickettsia vini**(2018)
Authors: Markéta Novákova, Petr Heneberg, Dieter Heylen, Matej Medvecky, Sebastián Muñoz-Leal, David Šmajs, Ivan Literák
Pages: 479 - 484 - Experimental infection by microparasites affects the oxidative balance in their avian reservoir host the blackbird **Turdus merula**(2018)
Authors: Ana Cláudia Norte, David Costantini, Pedro Miguel Araújo, Marcel Eens, Jaime Albino Ramos, Dieter Heylen
Pages: 720 - 729 - Sex ratios of the tick **Ixodes arboricola** are strongly female-biased, but there are no indications of sex-distorting bacteria(2018)
Authors: Arend Raoul van Oosten, Olivier Duron, Dieter Heylen
Pages: 307 - 313 - A comparative test of ixodid tick identification by a network of European researchers(2017)
Authors: A. Estrada-Peña, G. D' Amico, A.M. Palomar, M. Dupraz, M. Fonville, Dieter Heylen, M. A. Habela, S. Hornok, L. Lempereur, M. Madder, et al.
Pages: 540 - 546 - Pathogen communities of songbird-derived ticks in Europes low countries(2017)
Authors: Dieter Heylen, Manoj Fonville, Arieke Docters van Leeuwen, Arjan Stroo, Martin Duisterwinkel, Sip van Wieren, Maria Diuk-Wasser, Arnout de Bruin, Hein Sprong
Number of pages: 12 - Evolutionary changes in symbiont community structure in ticks(2017)
Authors: Olivier Duron, Florian Binetruy, Valérie Noël, Valerie Noel, Julie Cremaschi, Karen D. McCoy, Celine Arnathau, Olivier Plantard, John Goolsby, Adalberto A. Perez de Leon, et al.
Pages: 2905 - 2921 - Inefficient co-feeding transmission of **Borrelia afzelii** in two common European songbirds(2017)
Authors: Dieter Heylen, Hein Sprong, Aleksandra Krawczyk, Natalie van Houtte, Dolores Genné, Andrea Gomez-Chamorro, Kees van Oers, Maarten J. Voordouw
Number of pages: 9