As long-term pool feeders, ticks have developed myriad strategies to remain discreetly but
solidly attached to their hosts for the duration of their blood meal. The critical biological …

Ticks represent important vectors and reservoirs of pathogens, causing a number of
diseases in humans and animals, and significant damage to livestock every year. Modern …

In Slovakia, 22 tick species have been found to occur to date. Among them, Ixodes ricinus,
Dermacentor reticulatus, D. marginatus and marginally Haemaphysalis concinna, H. inermis …

Ancestral reconstruction in its fullest sense aims to describe the complete evolutionary
history of a lineage. This depends on accurate phylogenies and an understanding of the key …

Thymol is a monoterpene present in plants of the families Lamiaceae, Verbenaceae and
Apiaceae. Despite its proven acaricidal activity, little is known about the mechanism of action …

Tick salivary glands are important organs that enable the hematophagous feeding of the tick.
We previously described the innervation of the salivary gland acini types II and III by a pair of …

Background The common scabies mite, Sarcoptes scabiei is a cosmopolitan parasite of
humans and other mammals. An annotated genome of Sarcoptes scabiei var. canis has …

Synthetic peptide vaccines were designed to target the neuropeptides innervating Ixodes
ricinus salivary glands and hindgut and they were tested for their capacity to afford protective …

Understanding salivation in hematophagous arthropod vectors is crucial to developing novel
methods to prevent vector-borne disease transmission. The interactions between the tick …

Regulatory factors controlling tick salivary glands (SGs) are direct upstream neural signaling
pathways arising from the tick's central nervous system. Here we investigated the cholinergic …