Digest: Great tits and their ticks: Life‐history traits affect tick fitness

Ectoparasites such as ticks face many challenges to reproduce. They must maximize the size of their blood meal while avoiding being removed by their host. In a new study, Fracasso and colleagues followed the fate of individual ticks to determine which life‐history traits impact tick fitness. Their f...

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Autores principales: Matson, Kevin D., de Boer, Willem F., Ottenburghs, Jente
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9545061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35765778
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.14543
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description Ectoparasites such as ticks face many challenges to reproduce. They must maximize the size of their blood meal while avoiding being removed by their host. In a new study, Fracasso and colleagues followed the fate of individual ticks to determine which life‐history traits impact tick fitness. Their findings reveal a complex interplay between numerous parameters, including feeding time and engorgement weight. The situation is likely even more complicated when considering vector‐borne pathogens.
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spelling pubmed-95450612022-10-14 Digest: Great tits and their ticks: Life‐history traits affect tick fitness Matson, Kevin D. de Boer, Willem F. Ottenburghs, Jente Evolution Digests Ectoparasites such as ticks face many challenges to reproduce. They must maximize the size of their blood meal while avoiding being removed by their host. In a new study, Fracasso and colleagues followed the fate of individual ticks to determine which life‐history traits impact tick fitness. Their findings reveal a complex interplay between numerous parameters, including feeding time and engorgement weight. The situation is likely even more complicated when considering vector‐borne pathogens. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-07-05 2022-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9545061/ /pubmed/35765778 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.14543 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Evolution published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Society for the Study of Evolution. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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