Repkina L V
Parazitologiia. 1976 Nov-Dec;10(6):526-30.
Adult individuals of I. persulcatus are characterized by uneven assimilation of nutrients in digestive cells of the mid-gut. In the mid-gut of females and males exist simultaneously parts with different degrees of exhaustion. Physiological age of a hungry individual is determined by three items: "main" physiological age; degrees of exhaustion "accompanying" it; and, in addition, by different degrees of exhaustion of individual digestive cells in the limits of one portion of the mid-gut. Calculation of the area of the portions of the "main" and "accompanying" degrees of exhaustion has shown that the former is always maximum one. This suggests the availability of different food resources in hungry ticks of different physiological ages.
全沟硬蜱成虫的特征是中肠消化细胞对营养物质的吸收不均衡。在雌性和雄性的中肠中，同时存在不同程度消耗的部分。饥饿个体的生理年龄由三个因素决定：“主要”生理年龄；与之“相伴”的消耗程度；此外，在中肠的一部分范围内，单个消化细胞的不同程度消耗。对“主要”和“相伴”消耗程度部分的面积计算表明，前者总是最大的。这表明不同生理年龄的饥饿蜱存在不同的食物资源。
