Towards an evolutionary understanding of questing behaviour in the tick Ixodes ricinus.
The tick Ixodes ricinus finds its hosts by climbing vegetation and adopting a sit-and-wait tactic. This "questing" behaviour is known to be temperature-dependent, such that questing increases with temperature up to a point where the vapor pressure deficit (drying effect) forces ticks down...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014
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