The salivary glands of blood sucking arthropods contain a redundant �magic potion� that counteracts their vertebrate host�s hemostasis, inflammation, and immunity. We here describe the salivary transcriptome and proteomics (sialome) of the soft tick Ornithodoros coriaceus. The resulting analysis helps to consolidate the classification of common ...
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... and the same PCR amplification was attempted. The addition of hydrogen peroxide serves to eliminate heme compounds, which accumulate ... ...
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The soft tick, Ornithodoros coriaceus (Koch) (Acari: Argasidae), is a common mammalian parasite of livestock in many arid regions of the western U.S.A. The tick is a known vector of the undescribed bacterial pathogen that causes epizootic bovine abortion (EBA), which results in late-term abortions in beef cattle ...
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Epizootic bovine abortion (EBA) is endemic in California's coastal range and the foothill regions of the Sierra Nevada, where it has been the primary diagnosed cause of abortion in beef cattle for >50 years. Investigation of these losses has defined a specific fetal syndrome characterized by late-term abortion or birth of weak or ...
Previous studies revealed that the Pacific Coast tick (Dermacentor occidentalis) is infected occasionally with the agents of Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi) or human granulocytic anaplasmosis (Anaplasma phagocytophilum) and that it is an inefficient experimental vector of B. burgdorferi. The relationship of the pajahuello tick (Ornithodoros coriaceus) ...
... Title : THE FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY OF ORNITHODOROS TICKS. ... Descriptors : *TICKS, USSR, MORPHOLOGY(BIOLOGY), TRANSLATIONS. ...
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... Accession Number : AD0638002. Title : ON TICKS OF THE GENUS ORNITHODOROS KOCH PARASITIZING BIRDS. Corporate ...
In an effort to identify arthropods that might serve as vectors and perhaps reservoirs of African swine fever virus (ASFV) if it were to enter the U.S.A., the blood-sucking insect Triatoma gerstaeckeri and four species of ticks of the genus Ornithodoros were established in colonies capable of reproducing in numbers sufficient to enable thorough studies to be made of their ASFV ...
Prescribed fire was investigated as a method for controlling ixodid and argasid ticks in chaparral habitats in northern California. Two experimental and two adjacent control plots within a wildlife preserve were monitored for 1 yr postburn. Ticks were collected by flagging vegetation, by CO2-baited pitfall trap, and by live-trapping rodents. Twice as many rodents were caught at control sites ...
Borrelia crocidurae infection rates in different organs of adult Ornithodoros (Pavlovskyella) erraticus and O. (Ornithodoros) savignyi were studied at intervals during a 60-day period following an infective meal. The spirochaetes persisted in tick guts fo...
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... Title : THE EFFECT OF REDUCED ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE AND SEVERAL GASES ON THE TICKS ORNITHODOROS PAPILLIPES BIR. ...
Bioassays performed on Ornithodoros (Ornithodoros) savignyi (Audouin) demonstrated the presence of a female sex pheromone. Unfed adults and fed adults, after various postfeeding periods, were cross-tested. Two independent criteria were used: the percentag...
Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) spheniscus n. sp., described from wild-caught and laboratory-reared females, males, nymphs, and larvae parasitizing the Humboldt Penguin, Spheniscus humboldti Meyenk is the fifth species of the Ornithodoros (Alkectorobius) cape...
Digestive endoprotease activities of the coconut palm weevil, Homalinotus coriaceus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), were characterized based on the ability of gut extracts to hydrolyze specific synthetic substrates, optimal pH, and hydrolysis sensitivity to protease inhibitors. Trypsin-like proteinases were major enzymes for H. coriaceus, with minor activity ...
