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Optimizing tick artificial membrane feeding for Ixodes scapularis. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2023
Artificial membrane feeding (AMF) is a powerful and versatile technique with a wide range of applications in the study of disease vectors species. Since its first description, AMF has been under constant optimization and standardization for different ...
Garcia Guizzo M, Meneses C, Amado Cecilio P, Hessab Alvarenga P, Sonenshine D, Ribeiro JM.   +5 more
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The highly improved genome of Ixodes scapularis with X and Y pseudochromosomes. [PDF]

Life Sci Alliance, 2023
Ixodes scapularis Gulia-Nuss (IscGN) genome assembly and gene set were obtained using DNA from eggs and male and female adult ticks. By combining Hi-C, PacBio HiFi, and Illumina sequencing technologies, we assembled 13 pseudoautosomes and sex chromosomes:
Nuss AB, Lomas JS, Reyes JB, Garcia-Cruz O, Lei W, Sharma A, Pham MN, Beniwal S, Swain ML, McVicar M, Hinne IA, Zhang X, Yim WC, Gulia-Nuss M.   +13 more
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Projecting the Potential Distribution Areas of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) Driven by Climate Change

Biology, 2022
Ixodes scapularis is a vector of tick-borne diseases. Climate change is frequently invoked as an important cause of geographic expansions of tick-borne diseases.
Lu Zhang, Delong Ma, Chao Li, Ruobing Zhou, Jun Wang, Qiyong Liu   +5 more
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Detection of Babesia odocoilei in Ixodes scapularis Ticks Collected from Songbirds in Ontario and Quebec, Canada

Pathogens, 2020
Songbirds widely disperse ticks that carry a diversity of pathogens, some of which are pathogenic to humans. Among ticks commonly removed from songbirds, the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, can harbor any combination of nine zoonotic pathogens ...
John D. Scott, Emily L. Pascoe, Muhammad S. Sajid, Janet E. Foley   +3 more
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Bartonella infections are rare in blood-fed Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus ticks collected from rodents in the United States [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors
Background Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus are important vectors of multiple pathogens in the United States. However, their role in transmission of Bartonella spp., which are commonly reported in rodents and fleas, has been debated.
Ying Bai, Lynn M. Osikowicz, Jacoby Clark, Erik Foster, Christina Parise, Sarah Maes, Rebecca J. Eisen   +6 more
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mRNA vaccination of rabbits alters the fecundity, but not the attachment, of adult Ixodes scapularis [PDF]

Scientific Reports
19ISP is a nucleoside-modified mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccine that targets 19 Ixodes scapularis proteins. We demonstrate that adult I. scapularis have impaired fecundity when allowed to engorge on 19ISP-immunized rabbits.
Jaqueline Matias, Yingjun Cui, Geoffrey E. Lynn, Kathleen DePonte, Emily Mesquita, Hiromi Muramatsu, Mohamad G. Alameh, Garima Dwivedi, Ying K. Tam, Norbert Pardi, Drew Weissman, Erol Fikrig   +11 more
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Acquired tick resistance in Peromyscus leucopus alters Ixodes scapularis infection [PDF]

Infection and Immunity
Ticks are obligate hematophagous parasites and pathogen vectors responsible for morbidity and mortality worldwide. Ixodes scapularis is a vector for at least seven pathogens relevant to human and animal health, including the Lyme disease microbe ...
Elis A. Fisk, Cassie J. Leonard, Kristin L. Rosche, Elisabeth Ramirez-Zepp, Jeffrey R. Abbott, Jeb P. Owen, Dana K. Shaw   +6 more
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Sharing the Ride: Ixodes scapularis Symbionts and Their Interactions

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2020
The deer tick Ixodes scapularis transmits a variety of disease agents in the United States, spreading the bacteria that causes Lyme borreliosis, the protozoan agent of babesiosis, and viruses such as Powassan.
Philip E. Stewart, Marshall E. Bloom
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Early embryonic development in the tick Ixodes scapularis suggests syncytial organization and cellularization before blastoderm formation [PDF]

EvoDevo
Ixodes ticks are the most important vectors of arthropod-borne diseases in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Ixodes scapularis is the major vector that transmits the causative agent of Lyme disease in the eastern United States and can transmit up to
Isaac A. Hinne, Hailee R. Ciccotti, Jakub Wudarski, Michael N. Pham, Arvind Sharma, Molly M. McVicar, Benjamin Faustino, Andrew B. Nuss, Prashant P. Sharma, Monika Gulia-Nuss   +9 more
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Repellent efficacy of 20 essential oils on Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and Ixodes scapularis ticks in contact-repellency assays

Scientific Reports, 2023
Cases of mosquito- and tick-borne diseases are rising worldwide. Repellent products can protect individual users from being infected by such diseases. In a previous study, we identified five essential oils that display long-distance mosquito repellency ...
Hailey A Luker, Keyla R. Salas, D. Esmaeili, F. Holguin, Harley Bendzus-Mendoza, I. Hansen   +5 more
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