Numbers of Lyme Disease-Carrying Ticks Plummet in Absence of Western Lizards

Numbers of Lyme Disease-Carrying Ticks Plummet in Absence of Western Lizards
Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:01:00 -0600

Areas in California where Western fence lizards were removed had a subsequent drop in numbers of the ticks that transmit Lyme disease, scientists have discovered.

"Our expectation was that removing the lizards would increase the risk of Lyme disease, so we were surprised by this finding," said ecologist Andrea Swei, who conducted the study while she was a Ph.D. student in integrative biology at University of California, Berkeley.

"We found that the result of lizard ...

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