[Studies of the biological age in adult taiga ticks Ixodes persulcatus (Ixodinae)].
The history of studies of the biological age in ixodid ticks is discussed. A method of estimation of the biological age in adult ticks of the genus Ixodes by the degree of fat inclusions in midgut cells and in the fat body is developed. An "age scale" for the determination of the calendar age was assumed.
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D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D005216:Fat Body / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D018884:Ixodes / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D012800:Siberia