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Blood Digestion by Trypsin-Like Serine Proteases in the Replete Lyme Disease Vector Tick, Ixodes scapularis

Ixodes scapularis is the major vector of Lyme disease in the Eastern United States. Each active life stage (larva, nymph, and adult) takes a blood meal either for developing and molting to the next stage (larvae and nymphs) or for oviposition (adult females). This protein-rich blood meal is the only...

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Autores principales: Reyes, Jeremiah, Ayala-Chavez, Cuauhtemoc, Sharma, Arvind, Pham, Michael, Nuss, Andrew B., Gulia-Nuss, Monika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7142499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32210152
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11030201

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