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Trends in Parasitology, Volume 29, Issue 6, 1 June 2013, Pages 276-285
Daniel Sojka, Zdeněk Franta, Martin Horn, Conor R. Caffrey, Michael Mareš and Petr Kopáček
AbstractBlood-protein digestion is a key physiological process providing essential nutrients for ticks and is a prerequisite for the transmission of tick-borne pathogens. Recently, substantial progress has been made in determining the p