True Facts: Dangerous Little Ticks

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Published 2021-06-10
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CREDITS:

Footage from ‘The Tick Ixodes Ricinus and Lyme Disease’ licensed from and provided by Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) : www.tib.eu/en/

The original footage was created by: Dr. Franz-Rainer Matuschka, Freie Universität Berlin Dr. Andrew Spielman, Harvard School of Public Health Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film Gottingen
Dr. Uwe Sander - Director, Research Regine Feldmann - Editor Camera: Jurgen Kaeding, Kuno Lechner, Michael Schorsch, Hort Witman.

Extra special thank you to Dr. Dania Richter for her time and for her patience in helping me understand the remarkable life cycle of the Ixodes ticks. Dr. Richter led me to the remarkable documentary that is featured throughout this episode.

Thank you to Dania Richter, Franz-Rainer Matuschka, Andrew Spielman and L. Mahadevan for allowing me the use of images and footage from their amazing work on the feeding apparatus in: How ticks get under your skin: insertion mechanics of the feeding apparatus of Ixodes ricinus ticks dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.1758

Special thank to Marie Vancová, Tomáš Bílý, Ladislav Šimo, Jan Touš, Petr Horodyský, Daniel Růžek, Adam Novobilský, Jiří Salát, Martin Strnad, Daniel E. Sonenshine, Libor Grubhoffer & Jana Nebesářová for making their work available through the CC 4.0 license. Three-dimensional reconstruction of the feeding apparatus of the tick Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae): a new insight into the mechanism of blood-feeding
doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56811-2

Thank you to Graham Hickling for licensing me his excellent footage of the egg laying process and Gene’s organ.
Check him out at: vimeo.com/user565817

Thank you Patrons Andrew Pann & Rick Rubenstein for inspiring jokes, and Tina Persson for asking that the tick not be named Tina)
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