FIGURE LEGENDS
FIGURE 1 Evidence captured within a systematic review (from year 1973 to year 2020) to provide hints and more hypotheses on the origin of tick’s coronavirus and the possibilities of ticks transmitting coronavirus.
FIGURE 2 Possible geographical distribution of hard ticks linked with pangolins. Note: geographical distribution of some of the ticks linked with pangolins was unidentified. Map created with VIsME software.
FIGURE 3 Possible geographic distribution of hard ticks linked with seabirds. Map created with VIsME software.
FIGURE 4 Possible geographic distribution of hard ticks linked with bats. Map created with VIsME software.
FIGURE 5 Hypothesis about the possible ways that I. uriae ticks can use to transmit SARS-CoV-2 to humans.