The cattle tick, Rhipicephalus annulatus, genome is being sequenced in collaboration by the USDA-ARS Knipling-Bushland US Livestock Insects Research Laboratory and Texas A&M University. The DNA source
Ticks are exclusively obligate haematophagous ectoparasites, affecting eighty per cent of the world's cattle population and are one of the leading causes for production loss in the livestock sector an