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Schematic image of the uptake and digestion of host hemoglobin by Ixodes ricinus female ticks. In focus: the model of the proteolytic degradation cascade of host hemoglobin in endosomes of the gut cells as proposed by Horn et al.32 with marked positions of the cysteine and aspartic peptidases identified from the gut cDNA.26
