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This knowledge is particularly important if we want to help reefs recover devastating events such as mass bleaching and cyclones.
When they suck your blood they can leave behind the parasite that causes sleeping sickness.
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This insect’s unique reproductive biology could lead to new ways to control the species in the environment – and prevent the deadly sleeping sickness it spreads to people.
Middlebury Assistant Professor David Allen prepares to inspect a piece of canvas dragged through the forest to collect ticks.
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A tick expert explains his work trying to understand why the abundance of the parasites vary so much from location to location and year to year.