Among blood-sucking arthropods, ticks are recognized as being of prime global importance
because of their role as vectors of pathogens affecting human and animal health. Ticks carry …

The main importance of ticks resides in their ability to harbor pathogens that can be
transmitted to terrestrial vertebrates including humans. Recently, studies have focused on …

Many animals are dependent on microbial partners that provide essential nutrients lacking
from their diet. Ticks, whose diet consists exclusively on vertebrate blood, rely on maternally …

The lack of tools for the precise manipulation of the tick microbiome is currently a major
limitation to achieve mechanistic insights into the tick microbiome. Anti-tick microbiota …

Tick sialome is comprised of a rich cocktail of bioactive molecules that function as a tool to
disarm host immunity, assist blood-feeding, and play a vibrant role in pathogen …

The study of tick evolution may be classified into disciplines such as taxonomy and
systematics, biogeography, evolution and development (evo-devo), ecology, and …

At a time of major global, societal, and environmental changes, the shifting distribution of
pathogen vectors represents a real danger in certain regions of the world as generating …

Rickettsia helvetica is an emerging pathogen of the Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia (SFGR)
causing spotted fever diseases in various European countries. This tick-borne pathogen …

Background Ixodes scapularis is the predominant tick vector of Borrelia burgdorferi, the
agent of Lyme disease, in the USA. Molecular interactions between the tick and B …

Abstract Ixodid ticks (Acarina, Ixodidae) are vectors of dangerous human infections. The
main tick species that determine the epidemiological situation for tick-borne diseases in …