| Title: | Notes on responses of blacklegged ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) to host urine |
| Address: | "Livestock and Poultry Sciences Institute, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0022-2585 (Print) 0022-2585 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "In laboratory bioassays under conditions of high humidity, host-seeking female black-legged ticks, Ixodes scapularis Say, avoided urine of reproductively active male and nonestrous female white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann), the principal host species of the adult stage. At 50% RH, female I. scapularis did not avoid urine from male and female deer. Larval and nymphal I. scapularis did not exhibit an arrestment response to urine from male and female white-footed mice, Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque), a major host for immature blacklegged ticks. These results suggest that under some conditions, urine from 2 principal host species in certain physiological states does not provide kairomonal cues that aid I. scapularis in contacting these host species" |
| Keywords: | Animals Deer/parasitology/*urine *Escape Reaction Female *Ixodes Male Peromyscus/parasitology/*urine; |
| Notes: | "MedlineCarroll, J F eng England 1999/03/20 J Med Entomol. 1999 Mar; 36(2):212-5. doi: 10.1093/jmedent/36.2.212" |
