Background Ticks transmit pathogens of medical and veterinary importance and are an
increasing threat to human and animal health. Assessing disease risk and develo** new …

Ticks are ectoparasites that feed on blood and have an impressive ability to consume and
process enormous amounts of host blood, allowing extremely long periods of starvation …

Understanding the effects of temperature on the metabolic activity and the rate of depletion
of energy reserves by Ixodes ricinus can represent an important contribution to explaining …

Background Ixodes ricinus ticks are infected with a large diversity of vertically and
horizontally transmitted symbionts. While horizontally transmitted symbionts rely on a …

Ticks are obligatory voracious blood feeders infesting diverse vertebrate hosts, that have a
crucial role in the transmission of diverse pathogens that threaten human and animal health …

Warming winters will change patterns of behaviour in temperate and polar arthropods, but
we know little about the drivers of winter activity in animals such as ticks. Any changes in …

Background Female ticks remain attached to their host for multiple days to complete a blood
meal. This prolonged feeding period is accompanied by a significant increase in the tick's …

Precise and accessible techniques for measuring metabolic responses to environmental
stress are essential to allow the likely impacts of climate and climate change on tick …

Lipid metabolism is crucial in physiology. In recent decades the model object Drosophila
melanogaster has been actively used in the study of the fundamental issues of lipid …

Develo** precise and practicable techniques to determine the feeding history of ticks
would be an important advance for tick research. Such information could be used to help …