High impact information on Ixodidae

• Molecular cloning and functional expression of a serotonin receptor from the Southern cattle tick, Boophilus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae) [1].
• Cloning and transcriptional expression of a leucokinin-like peptide receptor from the southern cattle tick, Boophilus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae) [2].
• The intron position is conserved in 28 hard ticks, but intron size and nucleotide sequences vary [3].
• Investigations into the signalling pathways regulating secretion indicated that they are similar for Argasidae (fast-feeding ticks) and Ixodidae (slow-feeding ticks), but differ in their sensitivity to prostaglandin E(2) [4].
• These tick proteins have been assigned to the tick lipocalin family based on database searches that indicated homology between tick sequences and the fact that the histamine binding protein (HBP2) from the hard tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus (Ixodidae) shows structural similarity to the lipocalin fold [5].

Biological context of Ixodidae

• Oviposition of Boophilus microplus (Canestrini) (Acarida: Ixodidae). III. Oviposition pattern of acaracide resistant strain [6].
• Similarity between the defensin amino acid sequences of I. scapularis and Dermacentor variabilis (Say) (Acari: Ixodidae) was 62.2% for the pre-prodefensin region; for the mature defensins from these two species the similarity was 78.9%, with the six cysteine residues being located in the same relative position [7].

Anatomical context of Ixodidae

• Modulation of human lymphocyte proliferation by salivary gland extracts of ixodid ticks (Acari: Ixodidae): effect of feeding stage and sex [8].

Associations of Ixodidae with chemical compounds

• Metabolism of ecdysteroids in the female tick Amblyomma hebraeum (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae): accumulation of free ecdysone and 20-hydroxyecdysone in the eggs [9].
• The role of 2,6-dichlorophenol as sex pheromone of the tropical horse tick Anocentor nitens (Acari: Ixodidae) [10].
• Haemaphysalis (Garnhamphysalis) mjoebergi: identity, structural variation and biosystematic implications, deer hosts, and distribution in Borneo and Sumatra (Ixodoidea: Ixodidae) [11].
• The effects of precocene treatment on egg wax production in Gené's organ and egg viability in the cattle tick Boophilus microplus (Acarina Ixodidae): an ultrastructural study [12].
• The sterilizing effect of pour-on flumethrin on the camel tick, Hyalomma dromedarii (Acari: Ixodidae) [13].

Gene context of Ixodidae

• Immune responses of interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) knock out mice to repeated Haemaphysalis longicornis (Acari: Ixodidae) nymph infestations [14].
• Cloning and partial characterization of a Boophilus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae) calreticulin [15].
• Southern analysis using a cytochrome P450 gene probe, demonstrates the success of our method with genomic DNA extracted from two species of Ixodidae, the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum (Linnaeus) and the cattle fever tick, Boophilus microplus (Canestrini) [16].
• Cloning and sequencing of a putative acetylcholinesterase cDNA from Boophilus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae) [17].
• Immunization of mice with recombinant P27/30 protein confers protection against hard tick Haemaphysalis longicornis (Acari: Ixodidae) infestation [18].

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