Supplementary Figure S2: Molecular insights into Neotropical bird – tick ecological associations and the role of birds in tick-borne disease ecology

Species accumulation curve (SAC) for immature ticks recovered from Panamanian wild birds based BIN numerical taxonomy. Black line = S, mean observed species richness; solid gray line = Ŝ, mean Chao1 S estimate; dotted gray lines = 95% upper and lower confidence limits (CI) for Ŝ. As Chao1 is downward biased, the 95% lower CI is probably not useful. Fairchild et al (22) estimated that 37 species of hard ticks occur in Panama.