synganglion
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synganglion (plural synganglia)
- (acarology) A nerve mass located near the esophagus in certain ticks.
- 2015 July 10, “SNP Analysis Infers that Recombination Is Involved in the Evolution of Amitraz Resistance in Rhipicephalus microplus”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- It is thought that amitraz is a potential agonist of the octopaminergic system located in the tick synganglion.