Jones, C. R., J. L. Brunner, G. A. Scoles, and J. P. Owen. 2015. Factors affecting larval tick feeding success: host, density and time. Parasites and Vectors 8:340.

Cami was in Jeb Owen’s lab. She showed, among other interesting things in the paper, that while feeding success varied a great deal among mice, the differences were not consistent from feeding to feeding. In other words, there’s a lot of noise, but it’s not because some mice are just bad at grooming or killings ticks while others are not. Food for thought.