Hyderabad, Jan. 7 -- A groundbreaking genomic study has shed new light on the complex evolutionary history of mites and ticks, revealing how parasitism emerged and diversified over more than 100 million years.
The research provides crucial insights that could help predict disease transmission and strengthen One Health strategies amid climate change, a release stated on Wednesday.
The study was led by Dr Siddharth Kulkarni, Ramanujan faculty member at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) here, in collaboration with undergraduate students from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,Thiruvananthapuram. Researchers analysed 90 arachnid genomes-the largest dataset of its kind to date-to decode ancient evolu...