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Rearing Ixodes scapularis, the Black-legged Tick: Feeding Immature Stages on Mice
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Rearing Ixodes scapularis, the Black-legged Tick: Feeding Immature Stages on Mice

Rearing Ixodes scapularis, the Black-legged Tick: Feeding Immature Stages on Mice

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May 08, 2017

DOI:

10.3791/55286-v

DOI:
10.3791/55286-v

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06:00 min
May 08, 2017

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1Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Veterinary Sciences,University of Nevada, Reno, 2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,University of Nevada, Reno

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The production of healthy laboratory-reared ticks is essential to studies on tick biology, and tick-pathogen interactions. Here we demonstrate a simple protocol for immature tick feeding that is cost-effective and less stressful to mice.

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Nuss, A. B., Mathew, M. G., Gulia-Nuss, M. Rearing Ixodes scapularis, the Black-legged Tick: Feeding Immature Stages on Mice. J. Vis. Exp. (123), e55286, doi:10.3791/55286 (2017).

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