Tick Resting on Grass (IMAGE)

University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine

Tick Resting on Grass

Caption

This is a tick resting on a blade of grass. Some species of ticks are among the many animals that have incorporated bacterial toxin genes into their genomes.

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Matt Pinski/University of Washington

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