Tick salivary glands: The physiology of tick water balance and their role in pathogen trafficking and transmission

Ticks: Biology, Disease and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 73-91

  Bowman, A S ^a   Ball, A ^a   Sauer, J R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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