Tick Biology and Microorganism Interaction: Understanding the Groundwork of Pathogen Transmission Mechanisms
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Parasitology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 6002
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ticks; nutrient signaling pathways in ticks; tick-borne protozoan parasites; interactions between ticks and tick-borne protozoan parasites; transmission of protozoan parasites in ticks
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ticks are responsible for transmitting numerous pathogens that can cause severe and potentially fatal diseases to humans and animals. Zoonotic tick-borne diseases have continued to emerge over the years. Ticks could be small, but their biology is also intricate, making them efficient vectors of pathogens. They have unique reproductive and survival mechanisms that allow them to persist, also favoring the proliferation and transmission of pathogens. Thus, a deeper understanding of their biological mechanisms is crucial to develop new strategies for effectively controlling them and their pathogens.
Through the years, several aspects of tick biology have been elucidated. Moreover, the relationship of ticks with different microorganisms, such as the essential role that symbiotic bacteria play in the survival and development of ticks and the significance of tick biomolecules in pathogen multiplication and transmission, is now recognized. This Special Issue aims to showcase the recent research developments on different aspects of tick biology and their interaction with microorganisms, including the pathogens they transmit.
Dr. Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji
Dr. Remil L. Galay
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- blood meal digestion in ticks
- iron metabolism of ticks
- antioxidant mechanism of ticks
- tick microbiome
- reproduction in ticks
- tick embryogenesis
- transmission of pathogens in ticks
- tick-pathogen experimental model
- gene/protein expression profiles of pathogen-infected/uninfected ticks
- omics analyses of pathogen-infected/uninfected ticks
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