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The use of a recombinant baculovirus expressing a chitinase from the hard tick Haemaphysalis longicornis and its potential application as a bioacaricide for tick control
Assenga, SP; You, M; Shy, CH; Yamagishi, J; Sakaguchi, T; Zhou, J; Kibe, MK; Xuan, X; Fujisaki, K (College of Health Sciences, University of NairobiNational Research Center for Protozoan Disease, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, 080-8555, Japan, 2006)Baculoviruses are specific insect pathogens used as selective biological insecticides on lepidopteran insects. We have tested a recombinant baculovirus expressing a chitinase gene for its efficacy as a tick bioacaricide. ...