The functional response of metamorphosis rates to climatic variation: A case study with Amblyomma variegatum [PDF]
, 2012 Amblyomma variegatum is a three host hard tick that has demonstrated extensive range expansion over the last 150 years. This _Tropical Bont Tick_ vectors a number of economically important bacterial diseases of ruminants including the pathogen Ehrlichia ...
Guinat, Claire +4 more
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Identification of novel Coxiella burnetii genotypes from Ethiopian ticks [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Coxiella burnetii , the etiologic agent of Q fever, is a highly infectious zoonotic bacterium. Genetic information about the strains of this worldwide distributed agent circulating on the African continent is limited.
A Abebe +33 more
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Is the distribution of Amblyomma variegatum influenced by interspecific competition with Amblyomma hebraeum? Preliminary study: distribution range in Mozambique [PDF]
, 2012 Widely spread in intertropical and subtropical areas of Africa, the southern distribution of Amblyomma variegatum in Mozambique seems to have its limit around the Save River, at the 22nd parallel South. This area also corresponds to the northern limit of
Bournez, Laure +7 more
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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2011 During 2006-2008, a total of 260 adult ticks were collected from domestic and wild animals in different regions of the state of Santa Catarina (SC), Brazil, including areas where human cases of Brazilian spotted fever have been reported.
Alessandra Pereira Medeiros +8 more
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Cofactor Fingerprinting with STD NMR to Characterize Proteins of Unknown Function: Identification of a Rare cCMP Cofactor Preference [PDF]
, 2004 Proteomics efforts have created a need for better strategies to functionally categorize newly discovered proteins. To this end, we have employed saturation transfer difference NMR with pools of closely related cofactors, to determine cofactor preferences.
Sem, Daniel, Yao, Huili
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Propagation de parasites transportés avec leurs hôtes : cas exemplaires de deux espèces de tiques du bétail [PDF]
, 2010 Les tiques, comme tous les parasites, peuvent facilement être disséminées avec leurs hôtes. Parasites obligatoires de vertébrés auxquels elles sont fixées pendant une période plus ou moins longue, elles sont bien adaptées à ce mode de transport. Une fois
Barré, Nicolas, Uilenberg, Gerrit
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Amblyomma testudinarium (Ixodida: Ixodidae)
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020 The complete mitochondrial genome of Amblyomma testudinarium is reported for the first time in this study. Its entire mitogenome is 14,760 bp in length, contained 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, and 2 non-coding ...
Qiao-Cheng Chang +5 more
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Coincident Tick Infestations in the Nostrils of Wild Chimpanzees and a Human in Uganda [PDF]
, 2013 Ticks in the nostrils of humans visiting equatorial African forests have been reported sporadically for decades, but their taxonomy and natural history have remained obscure. We report human infestation with a nostril tick in Kibale National Park, Uganda,
Bernard, Andrew B. +6 more
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Rickettsias del grupo de las fiebres manchadas en garrapatas del género Amblyomma, capaces de infestar humanos, en áreas rurales del noroeste de Argentina [PDF]
, 2015 This work was performed to detect Rickettsia species of the spotted fever group in Amblyomma ticks likely to infest humans in rural areas from northwestern Argentina.
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Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) family in arthropods : Cloning and expression analysis of two MIF and one D-dopachrome tautomerase (DDT) homologues in Mud crabs, Scylla paramamosain [PDF]
, 2016 Acknowledgements This research was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 31172438 and U1205123), the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (No.
Duan, Li-Peng +7 more
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