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A 4-Yr Survey of the Range of Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens in the Lehigh Valley Region of Eastern Pennsylvania

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Microbiome analysis of Ixodes scapularis ticks from New York and Connecticut

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(2017) Sarah I. Bonnet et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

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Don't put all your eggs in one basket: a cost-effective and powerful method to optimize primer choice for rRNA environmental community analyses using the Fluidigm Access Array

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A Coxiella-Like Endosymbiont Is a Potential Vitamin Source for the Lone Star Tick

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(2015) Sukanya Narasimhan et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Infection and Co-infection Rates of Anaplasma phagocytophilum Variants, Babesia spp., Borrelia burgdorferi, and the Rickettsial Endosymbiont in Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) from Sites in Indiana, Maine, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin

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The Rickettsia Endosymbiont of Ixodes pacificus Contains All the Genes of De Novo Folate Biosynthesis

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Microbial Population Analysis of the Salivary Glands of Ticks; A Possible Strategy for the Surveillance of Bacterial Pathogens

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A novel approach, based on BLSOMs (Batch Learning Self-Organizing Maps), to the microbiome analysis of ticks

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Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

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Microfluidic PCR Combined with Pyrosequencing for Identification of Allelic Variants with Phenotypic Associations among Targeted Salmonella Genes

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Ixodes affinis (Acari: Ixodidae) in southeastern Virginia and implications for the spread of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease

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Expression of heat shock proteins and subolesin affects stress responses, Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection and questing behaviour in the tick, Ixodes scapularis

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Metagenomic Profile of the Bacterial Communities Associated with Ixodes ricinus Ticks

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(2011) Gaddy T. Bergmann et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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(2011) Brian Weiss et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Anaplasma phagocytophilum induces Ixodes scapularis ticks to express an antifreeze glycoprotein gene that enhances their survival in the cold

(2010) Girish Neelakanta et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

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Niche Partitioning of Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia miyamotoi in the Same Tick Vector and Mammalian Reservoir Species

(2009) Alan G. Barbour et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

A Method for Studying Protistan Diversity Using Massively Parallel Sequencing of V9 Hypervariable Regions of Small-Subunit Ribosomal RNA Genes

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Implication of the Mosquito Midgut Microbiota in the Defense against Malaria Parasites

(2009) Yuemei Dong et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Microbial communities and interactions in the lone star tick,Amblyomma americanum

(2008) K. CLAY et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY