Acaricide resistance is one of the greatest threats towards the successful control of vector ticks worldwide. Communal farmers of Zimbabwe use amitraz as the most common acaricide with occasional usage of pyrethroids and ...
Sungirai, Marvelous; Baron, Samantha; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Moyo, Doreen Zandile; De Clercq, Patrick; Maritz-Olivier, Christine; Madder, Maxime(Elsevier, 2018-04)
Recently there was an expansion in the geographic range of Rhipicephalus microplus in Zimbabwe. In order to understand gene flow patterns and population structure in this highly invasive and adaptable cattle tick, a ...
Baron, Samantha; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Madder, Maxime; Maritz-Olivier, Christine(Public Library of Science, 2015-07-09)
Rhipicephalus microplus, better known as the Asiatic cattle tick, is a largely invasive
ectoparasite of great economic importance due to the negative effect it has on agricultural
livestock on a global scale, particularly ...
