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OSU Tick Researcher’s Publications, 2004 to present:

Baum, Kristin A.

Photograph of Kristin A. Baum

Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma americanum because of the lone star

Blouin, Ed

Photograph of Ed Blouin

Favorite Tick and Why: Rhipicephalus appendiculatus – the first tick I worked with professionally and because of its historical significance in the transmission of pathogens in Africa.

Clinkenbeard, Kenneth

Favorite Tick: Dermacentor variabilis because this is the tick that we use to study transmission of Francisella.

Coburn, Lisa

Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma americanum. They are the easiest tick to count because they are fast!

de la Fuente, Jose

Photograph of Jose de la Fuente

Favorite Tick and Why: Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus because this is the most important cattle tick in tropical and subtropical regions of the world and the first tick species subject of my studies.

Dillwith, Jack

Photograph of Jack Dillwith

Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma americanum (L.). More detailed information on lipid metabolism is available for this tick than for any other.

Ewing, Sidney A.

Photograph of Sidney A. Ewing

Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma americanum because it transmits so many different parasites.

Jaworski, Deborah C.

Photograph of Deborah C. Jaworski

Favorite Tick and Why: I prefer Amblyomma americanum, the lone star tick. The reason I like this tick is that we know a lot about its physiology - I consider it the "lab rat" of the tick world. I like that this tick is easy to raise and will feed on almost any host. It has beautiful long mouthparts and like most Amblyomma has some ornamentation on its dorsal cuticle - females have a white/silvery spot on the scutellum and males are decorated around their festoons.

Johnson, Eileen M.

Photograph of Eileen Johnson

Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma maculatum is my favorite tick because it is the definitive host of Hepatozoon americanum

Kocan, Katherine M.

Photograph of Katherine M. Kocan

Favorite Tick and Why: The Tropical Bont tick, Amblyomma variegatum, that vectors Ehrlichia ruminantium, the rickettsia that causes heartwater disease. A. variegatum is a beautiful tick and I used a painting of the male on the

Little, Susan E.

Photograph of Susan E. Little

Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma americanum, the lone star tick – beautiful, ecologically successful, aggressive, and extraordinary transmitter of pathogens both known and yet to be discovered

Madden, Robin

Photograph of Robin Madden

Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma splendidum – (should have been named A. spectaculum) because it’s just the coolest looking tick ever!

Reichard, Mason V.

Photograph of Mason V. Reichard

Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma maculatum because it is large and transmits Hepatozoon americanum.

Shaw, Edward

Favorite Tick and Why: I have listed the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum, but I am not really a "tick person". I am, however, interested in pathogens which spend time within ticks and have adapted to survive in that environment, thus my interest in ticks. I’m just glad the real tick researchers let me hang out on the fringes. It is fascinating.