Tick population plummets in absence of lizard hosts
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 23:40
in Biology & Nature
The Western fence lizard's reputation for helping to reduce the threat of Lyme disease is in jeopardy. A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, found that areas where the lizard had been removed saw a subsequent drop in the population of the ticks that transmit Lyme disease...