Article
[Exoskeleton anomalies among taiga tick males from populations of the Asiatic part of Russia].
Parazitologiia - 1 Jan 2000
Nikitin A Ya, Morozov I M
Abstract excerpt
The taiga tick (Icodes persulcatus, Schulze, 1930) is the main and most epidemiologically dangerous vector of tick-born encephalitis virus (TBEV) and Borrelia in most parts of Russia's territory (Alekseev et al., 2008). The purpose of this article is to describe the incidence rate of I. persulcatus males with exoskeleton anomalies in populations of the Asiatic part of Russia. A total of 2630 taiga tick males...
Topics
- Animal Shells
- Animals
- Climate
- Female
- Ixodes
- Male
- Phenotype
- Siberia