Egg hatching success is influenced by the time of thermal stress in four hard tick species.

ABSTRACT: Ticks are blood-feeding arthropods responsible for the transmission of disease-causing pathogens to a wide range of vertebrate hosts, including livestock and humans. Tick-borne diseases have been implicated in significant economic losses to livestock production, and this threat will increase as these obligate parasites widen their geographical ranges. Similar to other ectotherms, thermal stress due to changing global temperatures has been shown to influence tick survival and distribution. However, studies on the influence of extreme temperatures in ticks have focused on advanced, mobile stages, ignoring immobile stages that cannot move to more favorable microhabitats. In this study, low- and high-temperature regimens were assessed in relation to egg viability for hard tick species-Amblyomm

SUBMITTER: Ajayi OM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10784778 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature