Ticks are blood-sucking arthropods that have developed myriad of strategies to get a blood
meal from the vertebrate host. They first attach to the host skin, select a bite site for a blood …

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 …

Background Tick control is mostly hampered by the rise of acaricide-resistant tick
populations. Significant efforts have focused on developing alternative control methods …

Simple Summary Various new technologies have been used to learn more about tick
physiology and biology in hopes of developing vaccines to protect people and animals from …

Abstract Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, the Cattle Fever Tick, causes significant
economic losses in livestock in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. As the usual …

Ferritins are iron-binding proteins that play critical functions in iron metabolism. Tick ferritins
are essential in blood feeding, reproduction, iron transport, and protection of ticks from the …

BACKGROUND The Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, continues to
expand its range in North America, and synthetic acaricides are likely to play an increasing …

The tick vector Rhipicephalus microplus is considered one of the main problems in cattle
production in tropical and subtropical regions. Anti-tick vaccines may form an alternative tick …

Rhipicephalus microplus economically impacts cattle production in tropical and subtropical
countries. Application of acaricides constitutes the major control method; however …

Cholesterol is a molecule vital for tick physiology, but ticks cannot synthesize it and rely on
dietary cholesterol. Therefore, tick proteins involved in cholesterol absorption and transport …