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ArticleExperimental & applied acarology2023

Do ticks exhibit repeatable individual behaviors?

Hugh Lefcort, Matthew L Hovancsek, Lindsey A Bell, Erin K Ellinwood, Elizabeth M Freisinger, Katelin G Herrmann, Jalisa R Lau

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Article in Experimental & applied acarology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Hugh LefcortBiology Department, Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone Avenue, Spokane, WA, 99258, USA. lefcort@gonzaga.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2917-6419
Matthew L HovancsekBiology Department, Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone Avenue, Spokane, WA, 99258, USA.
Lindsey A BellBiology Department, Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone Avenue, Spokane, WA, 99258, USA.
Erin K EllinwoodBiology Department, Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone Avenue, Spokane, WA, 99258, USA.
Elizabeth M FreisingerBiology Department, Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone Avenue, Spokane, WA, 99258, USA.
Katelin G HerrmannBiology Department, Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone Avenue, Spokane, WA, 99258, USA.
Jalisa R LauBiology Department, Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone Avenue, Spokane, WA, 99258, USA.

Funding

Gonzaga Summer Research Program lef-2021
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diseases caused by ticks are often addressed as a traditional epidemiological mathematical puzzle, i.e., how many identical infected vectors, how many uniform potential hosts, and a dependable rate of transmission, etc. Although often useful at the population level, at the individual level disease transmission occurs when one tick bites one person. Just as we assign agency to people in their outdoor behavior and use of prophylactics against arthropods, perhaps we should also see ticks as individual actors? Are all ticks automatons that just quest and attach, or do they exhibit repeatable individual behaviors that affect transmission? We wanted to determine whether Dermacentor andersoni and D. variabilis adult ticks exhibited repeatable behaviors in four experiments. The experiments focused on left/right movement, attraction to CO

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DermacentorAnimalsArachnid VectorsHumansClimateDermacentorPersonalityTick

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PMID37921893

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