A female Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, Southern cattle fever tick. The USDA-Texas A&M Department of Entomology study identified chromosomes that determine whether ticks develop as male or female. The discovery could lead to novel control methods of these and other disease- spreading ticks. –Texas A&M AgriLife/ Sam Craft
Agriculture, News
Breakthrough could revolutionize tick control
A recently published study lays the foundation for a potential new control method against cattle fever ticks, the vectors of pathogens causing bovine babesiosis, historically known as Texas cattle fever.
