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 …
M Buysse, AM Floriano, Y Gottlieb, T Nardi… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
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 …
SI Bonnet, G Vourc'h, A Raffetin, A Falchi… - PLoS neglected …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
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 …
A Maitre, A Wu-Chuang, L Mateos-Hernández… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
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 …
S Narasimhan, N Rajeevan, M Graham, MJ Wu… - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
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 …
SV Bugmyrin, LY Romanova, OA Belova… - Ticks and Tick-borne …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …