%0 Journal Article
%T Immune recognition of salivary proteins from the cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus differs according to the genotype of the bovine host
%A Antonio Augusto Mendes Maia
%A Beatriz Rossetti Ferreira
%A Frans N. J. Kooyman
%A Gustavo Rocha Garcia
%A Isabel K. F. de Miranda Santos
%A Jos¨¦ Marcos Chaves Ribeiro
%A Kristina T. Nelson
%A Luiz Gustavo Gardinassi
%A Sandra Regina Maruyama
%J Archive of "Parasites & Vectors".
%D 2017
%R 10.1186/s13071-017-2077-9
%X Males of the cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus produce salivary immunoglobulin-binding proteins and allotypic variations in IgG are associated with tick loads in bovines. These findings indicate that antibody responses may be essential to control tick infestations. Infestation loads with cattle ticks are heritable: some breeds carry high loads of reproductively successful ticks, in others, few ticks feed and they reproduce inefficiently. Different patterns of humoral immunity against tick salivary proteins may explain these phenotypes
%K Immunoglobulins
%K Proteome
%K Immunoproteome
%K Antibody response
%K Rhipicephalus microplus
%K Tick saliva
%K Bos taurus
%K Bos indicus
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5348738/