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Tick Genome Reveals Secrets of a Successful Bloodsucker

NIH-funded study could lead to new tick control methods.

Image of a tick engorged with blood Ixodes scapularis tick engorged with blood CDC

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–February 9, 2016.  With tenacity befitting their subject, an international team of nearly 100 researchers toiled for a decade and overcame tough technical challenges to decipher the genome of the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis).

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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, contributed primary support to the research, which appears…

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