Browsing Agricultural Sciences by Author "Waldman, Jéssica"

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    • A longitudinal transcriptomic analysis of Rhipicephalus microplus midgut upon feeding 

      Lu, Stephen; Waldman, Jéssica; Parizi, Luis Fernando; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Tirloni, Lucas (2024) [Journal article]
      Rhipicephalus microplus, a highly host-specific tick that primarily feeds on cattle, posing a significant threat to livestock production. The investigation of tick physiology is crucial for identifying potential targets ...

    • Mechanisms of acaricide resistance in ticks 

      Waldman, Jéssica; Klafke, Guilherme M.; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva (2023) [Journal article]
      Background: In several countries, including Brazil, the livestock industry plays a key role in the country’s economy. Brazil has the second largest bovine herd in the world and the biggest commercial herd. Ticks are an ...

    • Multi-omics technologies applied to improve tick research 

      Rodríguez Durán, Arlex; Silva, Vinícius Andrade; Numan, Muhammad; Waldman, Jéssica; Ali, Abid; Logullo, Carlos; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Parizi, Luis Fernando (2025) [Journal article]
      The advancement of multi-omics technologies is crucial to deepen knowledge on tick biology. These approaches, used to study diverse phenomena, are applied to experiments that aim to understand changes in gene transcription, ...

    • Putative target sites in synganglion for novel ixodid tick control strategies 

      Waldman, Jéssica; Klafke, Guilherme M.; Tirloni, Lucas; Logullo, Carlos; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva (2023) [Journal article]
      Acaricide resistance is a global problem that has impacts worldwide. Tick populations with broad resistance to all commercially available acaricides have been reported. Since resistance selection in ticks and their role ...

    • Similarity in qPCR assay parameters validates the reliability of two microtube brands 

      Avila, Lucas dos Santos; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Waldman, Jéssica (2025) [Journal article]
      Background: Quantitative PCR (qPCR) is a powerful molecular biology technique widely used for gene transcription analysis, pathogen detection, food and environmental contamination monitoring, due to its high sensitivity, ...

    • Stable internal reference genes for quantitative RT-PCR analyses in Rhipicephalus microplus during embryogenesis 

      Kim, Tae Kwon; Waldman, Jéssica; Ibanez-Carrasco, Freddy; Tirloni, Lucas; Waltero Orjuela, Camila Fernanda; Calixto, Christiano; Braz, Glória Regina Cardoso; Mulenga, Albert; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Logullo, Carlos (2023) [Journal article]
      Studies on the transcriptional control of gene expression are crucial to understand changes in organism’s physiological or cellular conditions. To obtain reliable data on mRNA amounts and the estimation of gene expression ...

    • Why controlling ticks is important 

      Waldman, Jéssica; Rodríguez Durán, Arlex; Ullah, Shafi; Numan, Muhammad; Parizi, Luis Fernando; Tirloni, Lucas; Ali, Abid; Logullo, Carlos; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva (2024) [Journal article]
      Learning about ticks is important because of the diseases and problems they can cause in people and animals. Ticks are related to spiders and are not insects—they are parasites that live outside their host‘s body and infest ...