Ticks associated with macquarie island penguins carry arboviruses from four genera.
Macquarie Island, a small subantarctic island, is home to rockhopper, royal and king penguins, which are often infested with the globally distributed seabird tick, Ixodes uriae.A flavivirus, an orbivirus, a phlebovirus, and a nairovirus were isolated from these ticks and partial sequences obtained.The flavivirus was nearly identical to Gadgets Gull