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Evaluation of an in vitro method to measure behavioural diapause in the tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus (Acarina: Ixodidae) in the laboratory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1997

M. MADDER  and
D. L. BERKVENS
M. MADDER
Affiliation:
Institute of Tropical Medicine, Department of Animal Health, Nationalestraat 155, B-2000 Antwerpen, Belgium
D. L. BERKVENS
Affiliation:
Institute of Tropical Medicine, Department of Animal Health, Nationalestraat 155, B-2000 Antwerpen, Belgium
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Abstract

A new method has been developed to investigate behavioural diapause in adult Rhipicephalus appendiculatus ticks. It is based on a system of gauze columns in which the activity of the ticks can be monitored in the laboratory. An experiment was conducted, involving different photoperiodic conditions during the nymph-to-adult moulting and pre-questing periods, with the aim of comparing the results obtained by the in vitro method with those of the standard in vivo method. Comparable results were obtained with both methods.

Keywords

ticksRhipicephalus appendiculatusdiapausein vitro evaluation
Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 115 , Issue 1 , July 1997 , pp. 97 - 100
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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