Field Study of the Relationship between Skin-Sensitizing Antibody Production in the Cottontail Rabbit, Sylvilagus floridanus, and Infestation by the Rabbit Tick, Haemaphysalis leporispalustris (Acari: Ixodidae)
- 1 October 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Parasitology
- Vol. 65 (5), 692-699
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3280346
Abstract
The resistance of cottontail rabbits to tick feeding appears correlated with the rabbits' development of skin-sensitizing antibodies. Resistance appeared to...This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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