...Cynthia J. Downs; Berry Pinshow; Irina S. Khokhlova; Boris R. Krasnov ABSTRACT Nidicolous ectoparasites such as fleas and gamasid mites that feed on small and medium-sized mammals spend much of their time in their hosts' burrows, which provide an environment for living, and often feeding...

...Gérard Donzé; Conor McMahon; Patrick M. Guerin SUMMARY Hard ticks spend most of their life isolated from passing vertebrates but require a blood meal to proceed to the next life stage (larva, nymph or adult). These opportunist ectoparasites must be capable of anticipating signals that render...