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This contraction enlarges the volume of the filtration chamber, and as it works
against the fluid resistance of the haemocoelic fluid a negative pressure relative
to that of the haemolymph is set up within the chamber. Fluid will pass into the ...
This contraction enlarges the volume of the filtration chamber, and as it works
against the fluid resistance of the haemocoelic fluid a negative pressure relative
to that of the haemolymph is set up within the chamber. Fluid will pass into the ...
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coxal fluid after feeding, each organ elaborates thirty times its own volume of fluid
in the space of 1 min, and such a fantastic rate of movement of fluid can only be
accounted for by ultrafiltration. That this is so is substantiated by the rapid ...
coxal fluid after feeding, each organ elaborates thirty times its own volume of fluid
in the space of 1 min, and such a fantastic rate of movement of fluid can only be
accounted for by ultrafiltration. That this is so is substantiated by the rapid ...
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workers have contended that coxal fluid is always free of spiro- chaetes despite
infection of the coxal glands. This is so, for example, in O. turicata where mice
have become infected in less than 1 min of tick feeding, long before the coxal
fluid ...
workers have contended that coxal fluid is always free of spiro- chaetes despite
infection of the coxal glands. This is so, for example, in O. turicata where mice
have become infected in less than 1 min of tick feeding, long before the coxal
fluid ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
CuticleThe Key to Tick Adaptability | 10 |
External Features of some Economically Important Species | 27 |
Copyright | |
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activity Africa Amblyomma andersoni animals appear appendiculatus areas argasid Argasidae attached Babesia basis capituli bite body Boophilus capitulum capsule cattle cells Cervical grooves cheliceral coxa coxal cuticle cytoplasm Dermacentor disease dogs eggs endocuticle engorged epicuticle evertsi external spur feeding fluid fully fed genus granules Haemaphysalis Haller's organ hard ticks hexagonus Hoogstraal host humidity Hyalomma hypostome immature stages infection inner Ixodes ricinus Ixodidae large number larvae larvae and nymphs lateral layer Lees legs length louping ill lumen male mammals membrane microplus moulting muscles nuclei Nuttall nymphal nymphs nymphs and adults occur outer palp palpal palpi paralysis parasites pathogens period persicus pharynx punctations rabbits relapsing fever reported Rhipicephalus rickettsiae salivary glands sanguineus scutum segment sheep skin soft ticks spermatophore spiracle Spiracular plate spirochaetes spotted fever spur on coxa surface tarsus tarsus IV temperature Theileria tick species tissues transmission transmitted transverse unfed female vector ventral virus whilst
Bibliographic information
| Title | Ticks and disease Volume 9 of International series of monographs on pure and applied biology: Division, Zoology Volume 9 of International series in pure and applied biology: Zoology division |
| Author | Don Ramsay Arthur |
| Publisher | Row, Peterson, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 24 Jul 2008 |
| Length | 445 pages |
| Subjects | Ticks Ticks as carriers of disease |
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