Independent somatic distribution of heme and iron in ticks.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2022.100916
Abstract: Ticks are blood-feeding ectoparasites with distinct genomic reductions, inevitably linking them to a parasitic life-style. Ticks have lost the genomic coding and, thus, biochemical capacity to synthesize heme, an essential metabolic cofactor, de novo. Instead,… read more here.
Keywords: iron; heme; heme iron; independent somatic ... See more keywords