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    • Evaluation of the biological function of ribosomal protein S18 from cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus 

      Costa, Gabriel Cerqueira Alves; Silva, Fernando Allan Abreu; Torquato, Ricardo José Soares; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Parizi, Luis Fernando; Tanaka, Aparecida S. (2024) [Journal article]
      Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, also known as the cattle tick, causes severe parasitismo and transmits different pathogens to vertebrate hosts, leading to massive economic losses. In the present study, we performed a ...
    • Novel pseudo-aspartic peptidase from the midgut of the tick Rhipicephalus microplus 

      Lu, Stephen; Parizi, Luis Fernando; Torquato, Ricardo José Soares; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Tanaka, Aparecida S. (2019) [Journal article]
      The characterization of Rhipicephalus microplus tick physiology can support efforts to develop and improve the efficiency of control methods. A sequence containing a domain with similarity to one derived from the aspartic ...