1. Cell biology of tick/host interaction and disease transmission

   • W. Reuben Kaufman

   Special issue Pages: i - i

2. Introduction

   • W. Reuben Kaufman

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 2

3. Dedication

   • Stuart Z. Shapiro

   Announcement Pages: 3 - 4

4. Immunology of interactions between ticks and laboratory animals

   • J. R. Allen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 13

5. Role of saliva in tick/host interactions

   • José M. C. Ribeiro

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 20

6. Characterization of ixodid tick salivary-gland gene products, using recombinant DNA technology

   • Glen R. Needham
   • Deborah C. Jaworski
   • Mark T. Muller

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 32

7. Acquired resistance to ixodid ticks induced by tick cement antigen

   • Stuart Z. Shapiro
   • Wolf P. Voigt
   • John A. Ellis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 41

8. Vaccination againstBoophilus microplus: Localization of antigens on tick gut cells and their interaction with the host immune system

   • D. H. Kemp
   • R. D. Pearson
   • P. Willadsen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 58

9. Tick/host interactions forIxodes holocyclus: Role, effects, biosynthesis and nature of its toxic and allergenic oral secretions

   • Bernard F. Stone
   • Keith C. Binnington
   • James H. Aylward

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 69

10. Transmission of Lyme disease spirochetes (Borrelia burgdorferi)

    • Joseph Piesman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 80

11. Protein phosphorylation and control of tick salivary gland function

    • J. R. Sauer
    • J. L. McSwain
    • R. C. Essenberg

    OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 94

12. Relationship between feeding, mating, vitellogenin production and vitellogenesis in the tickDermacentor variabilis

    • Rosemarie Rosell-Davis
    • Lewis B. Coons

    OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 105

13. Announcement

    Announcement Pages: 107 - 107