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 require blood meal to complete development and reproduction. Multifunctional tick
salivary glands play a pivotal role in tick feeding and transmission of pathogens. Tick …

Rhipicephalus sanguineus, commonly known as the brown dog tick, is a three-host tick that
feeds primarily on dogs and occasionally on other hosts, including humans. R. sanguineus …

When attempting to feed on their hosts, ticks face the problem of host hemostasis (the
vertebrate mechanisms that prevent blood loss), inflammation (that can produce itching or …

Ticks transmit the most diverse array of infectious agents of any arthropod vector. Both ticks
and the microbes they transmit are recognized as significant threats to human and veterinary …

Next generation sequencing and proteomics have helped to comprehensively characterize
gene expression in tick salivary glands at both the transcriptome and the proteome level …

Ticks are unique among hematophagous arthropods by continuous attachment to host skin
and blood feeding for days; complexity and diversity of biologically active molecules …

Rickettsiae cause some of the most severe human infections, including epidemic typhus and
Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Substantial progress has been made in research into the …

Background Saliva of blood sucking arthropods contains compounds that antagonize their
hosts' hemostasis, which include platelet aggregation, vasoconstriction and blood clotting; …

Ticks are efficient vectors of arboviruses, although less than 10% of tick species are known
to be virus vectors. Most tick-borne viruses (TBV) are RNA viruses some of which cause …