Ixodes ticks are the main vectors for a number of zoonotic diseases, including Lyme disease. Ticks secrete saliva directly into a mammalian host while feeding on the host's blood. This action serves ...

Except for development and regeneration, the rest showed a higher trend in captive langurs than wild (Figure 8B). Captive langurs have a gut microbiota predominantly characterized by the Firmicutes, ...

While prokaryotic cells do not have membrane-bound structures, they do have distinct cellular regions (Figure 1). In prokaryotic cells, DNA bundles together in a region called the nucleoid. Primitive ...