| Circulation of four Anaplasma phagocytophilum ecotypes in Europe S Jahfari, EC Coipan, M Fonville, AD Van Leeuwen, P Hengeveld, ... Parasites & vectors 7, 1-11, 2014 | 275 | 2014 |
| Evolutionary changes in symbiont community structure in ticks O Duron, F Binetruy, V Noël, J Cremaschi, KD McCoy, C Arnathau, ... Molecular ecology 26 (11), 2905-2921, 2017 | 217 | 2017 |
| Prevalence of Neoehrlichia mikurensis in ticks and rodents from North-west Europe S Jahfari, M Fonville, P Hengeveld, C Reusken, EJ Scholte, W Takken, ... Parasites & vectors 5, 1-10, 2012 | 159 | 2012 |
| Transmission dynamics of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in a bird tick community D Heylen, E Tijsse, M Fonville, E Matthysen, H Sprong Environmental microbiology 15 (2), 663-673, 2013 | 132 | 2013 |
| Age-dependent health status and song characteristics in the barn swallow LZ Garamszegi, D Heylen, AP Møller, M Eens, F de Lope Behavioral Ecology 16 (3), 580-591, 2005 | 90 | 2005 |
| Effect of tick parasitism on the health status of a passerine bird DJA Heylen, E Matthysen Functional Ecology 22 (6), 1099-1107, 2008 | 84 | 2008 |
| Ticks and tick-borne diseases in the city: Role of landscape connectivity and green space characteristics in a metropolitan area D Heylen, R Lasters, F Adriaensen, M Fonville, H Sprong, E Matthysen Science of the total environment 670, 941-949, 2019 | 77 | 2019 |
| Spatial disaggregation of tick occurrence and ecology at a local scale as a preliminary step for spatial surveillance of tick-borne diseases: general framework and health … V Obsomer, M Wirtgen, A Linden, E Claerebout, P Heyman, D Heylen, ... Parasites & vectors 6, 1-19, 2013 | 75 | 2013 |
| Effect of rodent density on tick and tick-borne pathogen populations: consequences for infectious disease risk AI Krawczyk, GLA van Duijvendijk, A Swart, D Heylen, RI Jaarsma, ... Parasites & Vectors 13, 1-17, 2020 | 73 | 2020 |
| Host races in Ixodes ricinus, the European vector of Lyme borreliosis F Kempf, T De Meeûs, E Vaumourin, V Noel, V Taragel’ová, O Plantard, ... Infection, Genetics and Evolution 11 (8), 2043-2048, 2011 | 70 | 2011 |
| Songbirds as general transmitters but selective amplifiers of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genotypes in Ixodes rinicus ticks D Heylen, E Matthysen, M Fonville, H Sprong Environmental microbiology 16 (9), 2859-2868, 2014 | 66 | 2014 |
| Differential diagnosis of three common Ixodes spp. ticks infesting songbirds of Western Europe: Ixodes arboricola, I. frontalis and I. ricinus D Heylen, E De Coninck, F Jansen, M Madder Ticks and tick-borne diseases 5 (6), 693-700, 2014 | 58 | 2014 |
| Assessing the effects of climate on host-parasite interactions: a comparative study of European birds and their parasites AP Møller, S Merino, JJ Soler, A Antonov, EP Badas, MA Calero-Torralbo, ... PloS one 8 (12), e82886, 2013 | 58 | 2013 |
| Host dispersal shapes the population structure of a tick‐borne bacterial pathogen AC Norte, G Margos, NS Becker, J Albino Ramos, MS Núncio, V Fingerle, ... Molecular Ecology 29 (3), 485-501, 2020 | 56 | 2020 |
| The Presence of Borrelia miyamotoi, A Relapsing Fever Spirochaete, in Questing Ixodes ricinus in Belgium and in The Netherlands C Cochez, P Heyman, D Heylen, M Fonville, P Hengeveld, W Takken, ... Zoonoses and public health 62 (5), 331-333, 2015 | 54 | 2015 |
| Pathogen communities of songbird-derived ticks in Europe’s low countries D Heylen, M Fonville, A Docters van Leeuwen, A Stroo, M Duisterwinkel, ... Parasites & vectors 10, 1-12, 2017 | 53 | 2017 |
| A comparative test of ixodid tick identification by a network of European researchers A Estrada-Pena, G D’Amico, AM Palomar, M Dupraz, M Fonville, ... Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 8 (4), 540-546, 2017 | 52 | 2017 |
| Contrasting detachment strategies in two congeneric ticks (Ixodidae) parasitizing the same songbird DJA Heylen, E Matthysen Parasitology 137 (4), 661-667, 2010 | 49 | 2010 |
| The design of complex sexual traits in male barn swallows: associations between signal attributes LZ Garamszegi, G Hegyi, D Heylen, P Ninni, F De Lope, M Eens, ... Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19 (6), 2052-2066, 2006 | 45 | 2006 |
| Co‐infections and transmission dynamics in a tick‐borne bacterium community exposed to songbirds D Heylen, M Fonville, AD van Leeuwen, H Sprong Environmental microbiology 18 (3), 988-996, 2016 | 44 | 2016 |
