Observation of live ticks (haemaphysalis flava) by scanning electron microscopy under high vacuum pressure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Ishigaki, Yasuhito ^a   Nakamura, Yuka ^a   Oikawa, Yosaburo ^a   Yano, Yasuhiro ^b   Kuwabata, Susumu ^c,d   Nakagawa, Hideaki ^a   Tomosugi, Naohisa ^a   Takegami, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON BEAM; FEMALE; LEG MOVEMENT; MOTION; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TICK; VACUUM; AGING; ANIMAL; LIMB; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SURVIVAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

HAEMAPHYSALIS FLAVA; IXODIDA;

AGING; ANIMALS; EXTREMITIES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOVEMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TICKS; VACUUM;

EID: 84858187360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032676     Document Type: Article

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