Ticks and tick-borne diseases are a significant economic hindrance for livestock production
and a menace to public health. The expansion of tick populations into new areas, the …

Climate change is altering agricultural production and ecosystems around the world. Future
projections indicate that additional change is expected in the coming decades, forcing …

Beef production needs to increase from 60 million to 130 million tons by 2050 to feed a
growing world population, and 70% of this production increase is expected from beef …

Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) is a widely distributed tickborne zoonotic
agent that infects a variety of host species. There is a lack of information on the true …

The cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae) has demonstrated its ability to
increase its distribution raising spatially its importance as a vector for zoonotic hemotropic …

Tropical theileriosis, babesiosis, and anaplasmosis are the most dominant tick-borne
infections in North Africa where they cause significant economic losses in ruminants' …

The aim of this study was to perform a genome wide association study for the coefficient of
adaptability, the heat tolerance coefficient, age at first calving and calving interval, using …

Background: Ticks are blood-sucking external parasites of livestock and humans; and can
transmit pathogens beyond their direct effect during biting. Ticks are distributed in different …

Cattle production in tropical regions has been estimated to account for just over half of cattle
worldwide, yet it has not been demonstrated that sufficient similarities in the cattle exist to …

Stress is a state of disturbed homeostasis evoking a multiplicity of somatic and mental
adaptive reactions resulting from any of the 5 freedoms of animals being violated. Many …