Molecular comparison of cattle fever ticks from native and introduced ranges, with insights into optimal search areas for classical biological control agents

• Main Authors: Goolsby, J. A., Guerrero, F. D., Gaskin, J., Bendele, K. G., Azhahianambi, P., Amalin, Divina M., Cruz, M. Flores, Kashefi, J., Smith, L., Racelis, A., Saini, R. K., De Leon, A. Perez
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2016
• Subjects: Cattle tick—Biological control; Cattle—Parasites; Cattle—Parasites—Biological control; Biology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/4549
• Institution: De La Salle University

Cattle fever ticks, the southern cattle tick, Rhipicephalus microplus (Canestrini), and cattle tick, Rhipicephalus annulatus (Say), are livestock pests endemic to Mexico and invasive along the Texas-Mexico border. Resistance to acaricide, alternate wildlife hosts, and pathogenic landscape-forming we...