Ticks and endangered voles linked by migrating birds
Friday, January 31, 2014 - 12:30
in Biology & Nature
Migrating birds probably did it. That's what University of California, Davis, epidemiology professor Janet Foley says after DNA detective work confirmed that a disease-carrying tick only found in the southeastern United States has colonized a federally endangered rodent population in an extremely isolated patch of Mojave Desert wetlands.