arthropod

Ticks are active throughout the year in California, but risk typically peaks in the spring when the biting arthropods are born, and in fall, after the first rains.

Machado notes that in arthropods, a group that includes the centipede, maternal care is associated with rough conditions.

But “arbovirus vaccines“ meant to target viruses transmitted by arthropods and insects “have been recently approved in many countries,” he said, including vaccines for dengue and Chikungunya, which are similar but more severe.

Tidwell primarily conducts genetic research in arthropods, specifically cattle fever ticks.

Ecdysozoans include all the arthropods, including insects, crustaceans, and spiders, as well as tardigrades, and roundworms, or nematodes.