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Vertebrate Host/Pest Physiology
item Aggressive interactions among white-tailed deer (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) at 4-poster devices for host-targeted tick control (May 2024)
item Ixodes scapularis Is the most susceptible of the three canonical human-biting tick species of North America to repellent and acaricidal effects of the natural sesquiterpene, (+)-nootkatone (Dec 2023)
item Zoonotic implications of white-footed mice habitat selection and territoriality in fragmented landscapes (Aug 2023)
item Lactate dehydrogenase inhibitors suppress Borrelia burgdorferi growth in vitro (Jul 2023)
item Characterizing the repellencies of methyl benzoate and its analogs against the common bed bug Cimex lectularius (Nov 2022)
item Tissue-damaging marking methods do not affect tick burdens on field captured Peromyscus spp (Nov 2022)
item Spatial repellents transfluthrin and metofluthrin affect the behavior of Dermacentor variabilis, Amblyomma americanum, and Ixodes scapularis in an in vitro vertical climb assay (Nov 2022)
item The role of tire leachate in condition-specific competition and the persistence of a resident mosquito from a competitively superior invader (Oct 2022)
item Very small collars: an evaluation of telemetry location estimators for small mammals (Sep 2022)
item Patterns of white-tailed deer movements in suburban Maryland: implications for zoonotic disease mitigation (Sep 2022)
item Development of a taqman real-time PCR for the identification of haemaphysalis longicornis (Acari: ixodidae) (May 2022)
item White-tailed deer spatial distribution in relation to ‘4-Poster’ tick control devices in suburbia (Apr 2022)
item Recently evolved Francisella-like endosymbiont outcompetes an ancient and evolutionarily associated Coxiella-like endosymbiont in the lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum) linked to the Alpha-gal syndrome (Apr 2022)
item Vaccination of cattle with synthetic peptides corresponding to predicted extracellular domains of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus Aquaporin-2 reduces the number of ticks feeding to repletion (Feb 2022)
item Behavior of nymphs and adults of the black-legged tick Ixodes scapularis and the lone star tick Ambylomma americanum in response to thermal stimuli (Jan 2022)
item Geotropic, hydrokinetic and random walking differ between sympatric tick species: the deer tick Ixodes scapularis and the lone star tick Ambylomma americanum (Jan 2022)
item Integrated tick management in Guilford, CT: Fipronil-based rodent-targeted bait box deployment configuration and Peromyscus leucopus (Rodentia: cricetidae) abundance drive reduction in tick burdens (Dec 2021)
item Composition of three zingiberaceae essential oils and their efficacy against the survivability of cocoa pod borer, Conopomorpha cramerella (Snellen) eggs (Mar 2021)
item Surveillance of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in suburban natural habitats of central Maryland (Jan 2021)
item Coinfections in ixodes scapularis from white-tailed deer compared to questing ixodes infer facultative mutualism across sites in Maryland, USA (Jan 2021)
item Trapping white-tailed deer (Artiodactyla: cervidae) in suburbia for study of tick-host interaction (Nov 2020)