Natural isotope signatures of host blood are replicated in moulted ticks

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 225-227

  Schmidt, Olaf ^a   Dautel, Hans ^b   Newton, Jason ^c   Gray, Jeremy S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b IS Insect Services GmbH   (Germany)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Fasting; Nitrogen isotopes; Tick borne diseases; Ticks

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; NITROGEN 15;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; FEEDING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; IXODES RICINUS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; GERBILLINAE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IXODES; LARVA; MOLTING; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; NYMPH; RABBITS; RODENT DISEASES; TICK INFESTATIONS;

IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 81855176067     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2011.09.006     Document Type: Article

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