Ticks :  biology, disease, and control / 
edited by Alan S. Bowman, Patricia. A. Nuttall 
 - New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2008 
 - 506 p. ;  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>Systematics and evolution of ticks with a list of valid genus and species names / by S.C. Barker and A. Murrell -- The impact of tick ecology on pathogen transmission dynamics / by S.e. Randolph -- Tick salivary glands : the physiology of tick water-balance and their role in pathogen trafficking and transmission / by A.s. Bowman, A. Ball, and J.R. Sauer -- Tick saliva : from pharmacology and biochemistry to transcriptome analysis and functional genomics / by J.M. Anderson And J.G. Valenzuela -- Tick toxins : perspectives on paralysis and other forms of toxicoses caused by ticks / by B.J. Mans, R. Gothe, and A.W.H. Neitz -- Tick lectins and fibrinogen-related proteins / by L. Grubhoffer ... [et al.] -- Endocrinology of tick development and reproduction / by H.H. Rees -- Factors that determine sperm precedence in ticks, spiders, and insects : a comparative study / by W.R. Kaufman -- Tick immunobiology / by M. Brossard and S.K. Wikel -- Saliva-assisted transmission of tick-borne pathogens / by P.A. Nuttall and M. Labuda -- Lyme borreliosis in Europe and North America / by J. Piesman and L. Gern, H.H. Rees 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521867610 (hardback)  RM549.00 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Tick-Borne Diseases<br/>Tick Control--methods<br/>Ticks--physiology
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WC600  / .T5565 2008 9