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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Autores principales: Joseph L Tomkins, Jennifer Aungier, Wade Hazel, Lucy Gilbert
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Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
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