An unexpected advantage of insectivorism: insect moulting hormones ingested by song birds affect their ticks

Ecdysteroids are important hormones that regulate moulting in arthropods. Three-host ixodid ticks normally moult to the next stage after finishing their blood meal, in the off-host environment. Presumably, three-host ticks that feed on the blood of insectivorous vertebrate hosts can be exposed to hi...

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Autores principales: Hornok, Sándor, Kováts, Dávid, Flaisz, Barbara, Csörgő, Tibor, Könczöl, Árpád, Balogh, György Tibor, Csorba, Attila, Hunyadi, Attila
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4800390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26996354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep23390

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4800390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26996354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep23390

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