The influence of tick behavior, biotope and host specificity on concerted evolution of the platelet aggregation inhibitor savignygrin, from the soft tick Ornithodoros savignyi.

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Ticks are obligate blood-feeding parasites that secrete anti-hemostatic components during feeding to enable control of the hemostatic system of the host. Complex interactions at the tick-host interface are an indication of the important role that the host played during tick evolution. The questio...

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