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1 Multiple ferritins are vital to successful blood feeding and reproduction of the 1 hard tick Haemaphysalis longicornis 2 3 Authors' names and affiliations: 4 Remil Linggatong Galay, Kyaw Min Aung, Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji, Hiroki 5 Maeda, Tomohide Matsuo, Hiroaki Kawaguchi, Noriaki Miyoshi, Hiroshi Suzuki, 6 Xuenan Xuan, Masami Mochizuki, Kozo Fujisaki and Tetsuya Tanaka 7 8 Department of Pathological and Preventive Veterinary Science, The United Graduate 9 School of Veterinary Science, Yamaguchi University, Yoshida, Yamaguchi 753-8515, 10 Japan 11 Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 12 Kagoshima University, 1-21-24 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan 13 National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture 14 and Veterinary Medicine, Inada-cho, Obihiro, Hokkaido 080-8555, Japan 15 Laboratory of Parasitology, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kagoshima 16 University, 1-21-24 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan 17 Laboratory of Veterinary Histopathology, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 18 Kagoshima University, 1-21-24 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan 19 20 *Corresponding author: Tel.: 81-99-285-3570 21 E-mail address: [email protected] 22 Mailing address: Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Joint Faculty of 23 Veterinary Medicine, Kagoshima University, 1-21-24 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, 24 Japan 25 26 http://jeb.biologists.org/lookup/doi/10.1242/jeb.081240 Access the most recent version at J Exp Biol Advance Online Articles. First posted online on 7 February 2013 as doi:10.1242/jeb.081240