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1. Characterization of the bacterial microbiota in wild-caught Ixodes ventalloi

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European Commission, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones de Educación Superior (México), Díaz-Sánchez, Sandra, Hernández-Jarguín, Angélica, Torina, Alessandra, Fernández de Mera, Isabel G., Blanda, Valeria, Caracappa, Santo, Gortázar, Christian, Fuente, José de la, European Commission, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones de Educación Superior (México), Díaz-Sánchez, Sandra, Hernández-Jarguín, Angélica, Torina, Alessandra, Fernández de Mera, Isabel G., Blanda, Valeria, Caracappa, Santo, Gortázar, Christian, and Fuente, José de la

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Exploring the microbial diversity of ticks is crucial to understand geographical dispersion and pathogen transmission. Tick microbes participate in many biological processes implicated in the acquisition, maintenance, and transmission of pathogens, and actively promote host phenotypic changes, and adaptation to new environments. The microbial community of Ixodes ventalloi still remains unexplored. In this study, the bacterial microbiota of wild-caught I. ventalloi was characterized using shotgun-metagenomic sequencing in samples from unfed adults collected during December 2013-January 2014 in two locations from Sicily, Italy. The microbiota identified in I. ventalloi was mainly composed of symbiotic, commensal, and environmental bacteria. Interestingly, we identified the genera Anaplasma and Borrelia as members of the microbiota of I. ventalloi. These results advance our information on I. ventalloi microbiota composition, with potential implications in tick-host adaptation, geographic expansion, and vector competence.

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2019

2. Characterization of the bacterial microbiota in wild-caught Ixodes ventalloi.

Author

Díaz-Sánchez S, Hernández-Jarguín A, Torina A, de Mera IGF, Blanda V, Caracappa S, Gortazar C, and de la Fuente J

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Anaplasma genetics, Animals, Borrelia genetics, DNA, Bacterial genetics, Female, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Metagenomics, Phylogeny, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S genetics, Sicily, Symbiosis, Ixodes microbiology, Microbiota
Abstract

Exploring the microbial diversity of ticks is crucial to understand geographical dispersion and pathogen transmission. Tick microbes participate in many biological processes implicated in the acquisition, maintenance, and transmission of pathogens, and actively promote host phenotypic changes, and adaptation to new environments. The microbial community of Ixodes ventalloi still remains unexplored. In this study, the bacterial microbiota of wild-caught I. ventalloi was characterized using shotgun-metagenomic sequencing in samples from unfed adults collected during December 2013-January 2014 in two locations from Sicily, Italy. The microbiota identified in I. ventalloi was mainly composed of symbiotic, commensal, and environmental bacteria. Interestingly, we identified the genera Anaplasma and Borrelia as members of the microbiota of I. ventalloi. These results advance our information on I. ventalloi microbiota composition, with potential implications in tick-host adaptation, geographic expansion, and vector competence., (Copyright © 2018 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.)

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2019
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