Ticks found able to survive being subjected to electron microscopy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people know that ticks are rather hardy little creatures, killing them generally takes some severe bashing with a blunt object, or incineration in an open fire. But few likely suspected they would be able to withstand the extreme conditions a typical specimen undergoes in order to be viewed properly under a scanning electron microscope (SEM). But, clearly they can as Yasuhito Ishigaki and his colleagues at Japan’s Kanazawa Medical University recently discovered. As they describe in their paper published in PloS One, most of the ticks they placed in their SEM survived not only the ordeal, but were able to walk away afterwards.

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