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Ticks home in on body heat: A new understanding of Haller’s organ and repellent action
Ticks are second only to mosquitoes as vectors of disease to humans and animals. Tick host detection is mainly ascribed to Haller’s organ, a complex sensory structure on the tick foreleg that detects odors, carbon dioxide and heat, but these host detection mechanisms are not well understood. There i...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6707551/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31442282 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221659 |