Ticks are ectoparasitic arthropods that necessarily feed on the blood of their vertebrate
hosts. The success of blood acquisition depends on the pharmacological properties of tick …

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 systematics of the genera and subgenera within the soft tick family Argasidae is not
adequately resolved. Different classification schemes, reflecting diverse schools of scientific …

Tick and tick-borne disease control have been a serious research focus for many decades.
In a global climate of increasing acaricide resistance, host immunity against tick infestation …

Eukaryotic parasites and pathogens continue to cause some of the most detrimental and
difficult to treat diseases (or disease states) in both humans and animals, while also …

While much effort has been put into understanding vitellogenesis in insects and other
organisms, much less is known of this process in ticks. There are several steps that facilitate …

Ticks are obligatorily hematophagous but spend the majority of their lives off host in an
unfed state where they must resist starvation between bouts of blood feeding. Survival …

Abstract Background Predatory mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) are the most important beneficial
arthropods used in augmentative biological pest control of protected crops around the world …

To further obtain insights into the Rhipicephalus microplus transcriptome, we used RNA-seq
to carry out a study of expression in (i) embryos;(ii) ovaries from partially and fully engorged …

Background Trombidid mites have a unique life cycle in which only the larval stage is
ectoparasitic. In the superfamily Trombiculoidea (“chiggers”), the larvae feed preferentially …