TABLE 1.

List of studies describing microRNA profiles in hard ticks.

Species	Profile type	Tissue of interest	Function of interest	Characterized function	References
Ixodes scapularis	Vector-Pathogen	Salivary Glands	Saliva-assisted transmission	Pathogen Replication and Transmission	Hermance et al. (2019), Kumar et al. (2022)
Hyalomma anatolicum	Biological Processes	Whole Body	Large scale characterization	Development/Feeding	Luo et al. (2015), Luo et al. (2021)
Haemaphysalis longicornis	Biological Processes	Salivary Glands/Ovaries/Midgut	Feeding	Feeding/Digestion/Oviposition	Zhou et al. (2013), Malik et al. (2019a), Malik et al. (2019b)
Dermacentor silvarum	Environmental Influences	Whole Body	Cold Tolerance	Cold Tolerance	Agwunobi et al. (2022)
Haemaphysalis longicornis	Biological Processes	Extracellular Vesicles	Feeding	N/A	Nawaz et al. (2020)
Haemaphysalis longicornis	Wild And Cultured Populations	Whole Body	Gene Expression Regulation/Development	N/A	Luo et al. (2019), Liu et al. (2020b)
Rhipicephalus sanguineus	Biological Processes	Whole Body	Sex Differentiation	N/A	Shao et al. (2015)
Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides	Biological Processes	Whole Body	Innate Immunity	N/A	Wang et al. (2015)
Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus	Biological Processes	Whole Body	Development	N/A	Luo et al. (2022b)
Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus	Conservation	Salivary Glands/Midgut/Ovaries	miRNA Conservation/Expression	N/A	Barrero et al. (2011)
Ixodes ricinus	Host-Manipulation	Salivary Glands	Feeding	N/A	Hackenberg et al. (2017)

^a The studies that were only profiled without function validation were marked with not available (N/A).