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Tick Host Specificity

Tick Host Specificity is a biological construct that denotes the degree to which a tick species relies on particular host taxa for successful feeding and reproduction, distinguishing it from generalist tick species by its selective association with a narrow range of host organisms.

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Distribution and Hosts of Certain North American Ticks

F. C. Bishopp, Helen Louise Trembley · Journal of Parasitology · 1945 · 374 citations

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Tick-Host specificity

Harry Hoogstraal, André Aeschlimann · Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew) · 1982 · 207 citations · Full text

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Host specificity of a generalist parasite: genetic evidence of sympatric host races in the seabird tick<i>Ixodes uriae</i>

Karen D. McCoy, Thierry Boulinier, C. Tirard et al. · Journal of Evolutionary Biology · 2001 · 158 citations

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RNA interference in ticks: a study using histamine binding protein dsRNA in the female tick <i>Amblyomma americanum</i>

Majd Aljamali, Abdelaziz Bior, John R. Sauer et al. · Insect Molecular Biology · 2003 · 98 citations

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Seasonal Abundance and Hosts of Ixodes Dammini(Acari: Ixodidae) and Other Ixodid Ticks from an Endemic Lyme Disease Focus in New Jersey, USA

Terry L. Schulze, G. Stephen Bowen, Michael F. Lakat et al. · Journal of Medical Entomology · 1986 · 98 citations

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Authors

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  1. IG
    Ivan G. Horak

    University of Pretoria, South Africa

    4 publications · 128 citations

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  2. JD
    José de la Fuente

    Oklahoma State University, United States

    4 publications · 228 citations

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  3. LA
    Lance A. Durden

    Georgia Southern University, United States

    3 publications · 59 citations

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  4. DA
    Dmitry A. Apanaskevich

    Georgia Southern University, United States

    3 publications · 115 citations

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  5. CM
    C. Michael Bull

    Flinders University, Australia

    2 publications · 37 citations

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Institutions

198

  1. Georgia Southern University

    Statesboro, United States

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    208 citations

  2. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

    Marseille, France

    5 h-index

    13 publications

    608 citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    5 h-index

    17 publications

    1.1K citations

  4. Oklahoma State University

    Stillwater, United States

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    560 citations

  5. University of Pretoria

    Pretoria, South Africa

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    177 citations

  6. Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos

    Ciudad Real, Spain

    4 h-index

    13 publications

    737 citations

  7. University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice

    České Budějovice, Czechia

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    235 citations

  8. Institute of Parasitology

    České Budějovice, Czechia

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    238 citations

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  1. PubMed

    Repository · 9 publications · 229 citations

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  2. Experimental and Applied Acarology

    8 publications · 241 citations

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  3. Journal of Medical Entomology

    8 publications · 261 citations

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  4. Parasitology

    6 publications · 150 citations

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  5. Parasites & Vectors

    4 publications · 215 citations

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