URI entomologist receives NIH grant to study ecological factors behind evolution of Lyme disease bacteria in ticks
University of Rhode Island entomologist Jannelle Couret is tilting how we understand the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. Instead of looking at it from a human perspective, she and an interdisciplinary team of researchers take the tick’s perspective. While bacteria – Borrelia burgdorferi – is the causative agent of Lyme disease in humans, its presence …