This is a peer-review report related to MS ID#69542.

This is a peer-review report related to MS ID#69542.

This is the author’s responses to peer-review reports related to MS ID#69542.

Ticks are well-known ectoparasites of domestic animals, causing significant economic losses and playing a crucial role in the transmission of pathogens within the livestock industry worldwide, including in Iran. Understanding the distribution and diversity of ticks is essential for effective control strategies, especially in regions like Tehran province, where livestock plays a vital role in the economy.

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This is the authors’ response to peer-review reports related to MS ID#68519.

The neural control of food intake involves interactions between homeostatic and nonhomeostatic systems. The nucleus accumbens shell (AcbSh) and ventral pallidum (VP) play key roles in regulating ingestive behavior and project to each other. Previous studies have shown that these projections influence food consumption, with sex differences reported in the modulation of sucrose intake by VP projections.

The prediction of tertiary RNA structures is significant to the field of medicine (eg, messenger RNA [mRNA] vaccines, genome editing) and the exploration of viral transcripts. Though many RNA folding software programs exist, few studies have condensed their locus of attention solely to viral pseudoknotted RNA. These regulatory pseudoknots play a role in genome replication, gene expression, and protein synthesis.