Researchers use microscope equipped camera to learn how ticks pierce and adhere to skin (w/ Video)
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from the U.S. and Germany has succeeded in filming ticks as they pierce the skin of a mouse ear, attach themselves and then start sucking blood. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, the team describes how they filmed the ticks and what they learned in analyzing the video they created.