Exploiting a natural instance of vertebrate-posed chemical aposematism for tick bite prevention: Repellency of Ixodes scapularis with (E)-Oct-2-enal

• Eric L. Siegel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Zoology, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8226-811X

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• Sophia Goodnow ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sophia Goodnow, Lucy Thompson, Sarah Nicolson, Elizabeth MacLeod

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Zoology, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Lucy Thompson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sophia Goodnow, Lucy Thompson, Sarah Nicolson, Elizabeth MacLeod

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Zoology, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Sarah Nicolson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sophia Goodnow, Lucy Thompson, Sarah Nicolson, Elizabeth MacLeod

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Zoology, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Elizabeth MacLeod ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sophia Goodnow, Lucy Thompson, Sarah Nicolson, Elizabeth MacLeod

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Zoology, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Andrew Y. Li,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Guang Xu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Zoology, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Stephen M. Rich

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: smrich@umass.edu

  Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Zoology, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7175-6380

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