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The highly improved genome of Ixodes scapularis with X and Y pseudochromosomes [PDF]

Life Science 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:
Andrew B Nuss, Johnathan S Lomas, Jeremiah B Reyes, Omar Garcia-Cruz, Wenlong Lei, Arvind Sharma, Michael N Pham, Saransh Beniwal, Mia L Swain, Molly McVicar, Isaac Amankona Hinne, Xingtan Zhang, Won C Yim, Monika Gulia-Nuss   +13 more
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Characterization of discontinuous ventilation cycles in nymphal Ixodes scapularis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Three-host Ixodid ticks, obligate blood-feeding Acari Parasitiformes, spend the majority of their lives off of hosts. They rely on morphological, physiological, and behavioral adaptations to address the compromise between water loss and obtaining oxygen ...
Samantha Schofield, Jane S Waters, Y M Nuwan D Y Bandara, Jannelle Couret   +3 more
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The Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes scapularis : An Increasing Public Health Concern

Trends in Parasitology, 2018
In the United States, the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, is a vector of seven human pathogens, including those causing Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Borrelia miyamotoi disease, Powassan virus disease, and ehrlichiosis associated with ...
Rebecca Eisen, Lars Eisen
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Alpha-Gal Syndrome after Ixodes scapularis Tick Bite and Statewide Surveillance, Maine, USA, 2014-2023. [PDF]

Emerg Infect Dis
In the United States, alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is primarily associated with lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum) bites. We describe AGS onset after an Ixodes scapularis tick bite and present AGS surveillance in Maine, 2014–2023.
Saunders EF, Sohail H, Myles DJ, Charnetzky D, Ayres BN, Nicholson WL, Commins SP, Salzer JS.   +7 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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County-Scale Distribution ofIxodes scapularisandIxodes pacificus(Acari: Ixodidae) in the Continental United States

Journal of Medical Entomology, 2016
The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say, is the primary vector to humans in the eastern United States of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, as well as causative agents of anaplasmosis and babesiosis.
Rebecca Eisen, Charles Beard, Eisen Rebecca J   +2 more
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Statewide Passive Surveillance of Ixodes scapularis and Associated Pathogens in Maine

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 2021
The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, is the primary vector of multiple human pathogens, including the causative agents of Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, and babesiosis. Both I. scapularis and its associated pathogens have expanded their geographic range
Thomas Rounsville
exaly   +2 more sources

Spatial and temporal distribution of Ixodes scapularis and tick-borne pathogens across the northeastern United States. [PDF]

Parasit Vectors
The incidence of tick-borne diseases is increasing across the USA, with cases concentrated in the northeastern and midwestern regions of the country. Ixodes scapularis is one of the most important tick-borne disease vectors and has spread throughout the ...
Price LE, Winter JM, Cantoni JL, Cozens DW, Linske MA, Williams SC, Dill GM, Gardner AM, Elias SP, Rounsville TF, Smith RP, Palace MW, Herrick C, Prusinski MA, Casey P, Doncaster EM, Savage JDT, Wallace DI, Shi X.   +18 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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