Insights into the development of Ixodes scapularis: A resource for research on a medically important tick species

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kocan, Katherine M ^a   De La Fuente, José ^a,b   Coburn, Lisa A ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Black legged tick; Deer tick; Ixodes scapularis; Tick borne pathogens; Ticks

Indexed keywords

TICK VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TARGETING; ECTOPARASITE; ECTOPARASITOSIS; EGG LAYING; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; MATING; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SECONDARY INFECTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TICK CELL CULTURE; VACCINE PRODUCTION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IXODES; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PROCEDURES; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ENTOMOLOGY; IXODES; LIFE CYCLE STAGES;

EID: 84946963023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-1185-7     Document Type: Article

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