17/05/2018: Today in strucTEM microscopes: The tick and its tools
Ticks are bloodsucking mites. Many of them are carriers of disease.
We took a closer look at the tools ticks use to get our blood.
How does the tick find us? )
In the last leg segment of the first leg pair (4) there is a pit, the Hall organ (e). It contains chemoreceptors that enable the tick to find the host.