For thousands of years, edible insects have been used as food to alleviate hunger and
improve malnutrition. Some insects have also been used as medicines because of their …

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 …

It is more than 50years since the lysosome was discovered. Since then its hydrolytic
machinery, including proteases and other hydrolases, has been fairly well identified and …

In little more than 30 years, Lyme disease, which is caused by the spirochaete Borrelia
burgdorferi, has risen from relative obscurity to become a global public health problem and a …

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 …

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 …

Introduction 3. Discovery of the cystatin superfamily 4. Evolution and classification of the
cystatin superfamily 5. General properties of the cystatin superfamily 5.1. Type 1 cystatins …

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 …