Infection with Babesia bovis alters metabolic rates of Rhipicephalus microplus ticks across life stages.

• Tác giả: Kayla N Earls, Kennan Oyen, Karen Poh, Massaro Ueti
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 025.347 *Pictures and materials for projection
• Thông tin xuất bản: England : Parasites & vectors , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 741687

Tóm tắt

BACKGROUND: Metabolic responses to infection differ based on arthropod and pathogen. Increased metabolic rates can result in faster depletion of energetic resources, and decreases may allow for energy conservation. Babesia bovis is a protozoan pathogen transmitted by the cattle fever tick, Rhipicephalus microplus. Adult female ticks acquire B. bovis by feeding on an infected animal. Babesia bovis undergoes development and invades the ovaries where it is transmitted transovarially to tick offspring. The effects of infection on R. microplus metabolic rate are not well studied. METHODS: We tested the hypothesis that R. microplus infected with B. bovis would have altered metabolic rates (volume of carbon dioxide [VCO RESULTS: Infected replete females have decreased VCO CONCLUSIONS: VCO