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 …

Tick-transmitted infections are an emerging problem in dogs. In addition to causing serious
disease in traditional tropical and semi-tropical regions, they are now increasingly …

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

There is now abundant evidence that vaccination with defined protein antigens is able to
induce significant immunity to tick infestation. In a limited number of cases, this immunity has …

Ticks are of vast medical and veterinary public health importance due to direct damage
caused by feeding and their roles in transmitting well known and emerging infectious …

Tick saliva has pleiotropic properties that facilitate persistence of the arthropod upon the
host. We now describe a feeding-inducible protein in Ixodes scapularis saliva, Salp15, that …

Ticks and tick-borne diseases are significant public health concerns. Bioactive molecules in
tick saliva facilitate prolonged blood-feeding and transmission of tick-borne pathogens to the …