Blood-protein digestion is a key physiological process providing essential nutrients for ticks
and is a prerequisite for the transmission of tick-borne pathogens. Recently, substantial …

Simple Summary Ticks affect the health of humans and animals. In tropical African countries,
cattle are threatened by ticks and the diseases they transmit, making necessary a tick control …

Background Ticks are vectors of a wide variety of pathogens causing severe diseases in
humans and domestic animals. Intestinal digestion of the host blood is an essential process …

Background Ticks are obligate blood feeders. The midgut is the first major region of the body
where blood and microbes ingested with the blood meal come in contact with the tick's …

Ticks, triatomines, mosquitoes and sand flies comprise a large number of haematophagous
arthropods considered vectors of human infectious diseases. While consuming blood to …

The tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus (formerly Boophilus microplus) is the major
ectoparasite affecting livestock in America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. Conventional tick …

Ticks are ectoparasitic blood-feeders and important vectors for pathogens including
arboviruses, rickettsiae, spirochetes and protozoa. As obligate blood-feeders, one possible …

Ticks are arthropod ectoparasites of importance for public and veterinary health. The
understanding of tick oogenesis and embryogenesis could contribute to the development of …

Two genes coding for cysteine peptidase inhibitors of the cystatin family (Om-cystatin 1 and
2) were isolated from a gut-specific cDNA library of the soft tick Ornithodoros moubata. Both …

Vaccination is a feasible strategy for controlling the haematophagous poultry red mite
Dermanyssus gallinae. A cDNA library enriched for genes upregulated after feeding was …