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Touha po cukru; fyziologické procesy klíštěte \kur{Ixodes ricinus} v závislosti na hostitelské glukóze
PLAČKOVÁ, Barbora
Blood-feeding arthropods, Ixodes ricinus acquire and digest vast amounts of the host blood meal, which often exceeds their body volume up to 100 times. It seems to be an only source of energy which they need for the reproduction. I identified homologues of six sugar transporters genes encoding sugar transporters in the I. ricinus tick. Transcripts encoding sugar transporters were found in digestive tract of I. ricinus. The results of RT PCR analysis characterised tissue expression profiles of the sugar transporters while fed by blood. The sugar transporters were determined as a drug target by RNAi. In this master thesis, the use of RNAi and available sugar inhibitors did not confirm glucose importance in physiology of ticks. Membrane feeding showed that blood meal with 2-deoxy-D-glucose had a significant impact on the reproduction and viability of the ticks.

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