Given a map M on a connected and closed orientable surface, the deltamatroid of M is a combinatorial object associated to M which captures some topological information of the embedding. We explore how delta-matroids associated to dessins behave under the action of the absolute Galois group. Twists of deltamatroids are considered as well; they correspond to the recently introduced operation of partial duality of maps. Furthermore, we prove that every map has a partial dual defined over its field of moduli. A relationship between dessins, partial duals and tropical curves arising from the cartography groups of dessins is observed as well.
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