Microbiomes of Blood-Feeding Arthropods: Genes Coding for Essential Nutrients and Relation to Vector Fitness and Pathogenic Infections. A Review

Production of germ-free mosquitoes via transient colonisation allows stage-specific investigation of host–microbiota interactions

(2021) Ottavia Romoli et al.   Nature Communications

Interactions Between Tsetse Endosymbionts and Glossina pallidipes Salivary Gland Hypertrophy Virus in Glossina Hosts

(2021) Güler Demirbas-Uzel et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Tick Ecdysteroid Hormone, Global Microbiota/Rickettsia Signaling in the Ovary versus Carcass during Vitellogenesis in Part-Fed (Virgin) American Dog Ticks, Dermacentor variabilis

(2021) Loganathan Ponnusamy et al.   Microorganisms

Exposure of Anopheles mosquitoes to trypanosomes reduces reproductive fitness and enhances susceptibility to Plasmodium

(2020) Constentin Dieme et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Implications of asymptomatic infection for the natural history of selected parasitic tropical diseases

(2020) Jorge Alvar et al.   Seminars in Immunopathology

Sharing the Ride: Ixodes scapularis Symbionts and Their Interactions

(2020) Philip E. Stewart et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Poor Unstable Midgut Microbiome of Hard Ticks Contrasts With Abundant and Stable Monospecific Microbiome in Ovaries

(2020) Melina Garcia Guizzo et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

A physiologic overview of the organ-specific transcriptome of the cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus

(2020) Lucas Tirloni et al.   Scientific Reports

Potential effects of blood meal host on bacterial community composition in Ixodes scapularis nymphs

(2019) William J. Landesman et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Borrelia burgdorferi peptidoglycan is a persistent antigen in patients with Lyme arthritis

(2019) Brandon L. Jutras et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rickettsia buchneri, symbiont of the deer tick Ixodes scapularis, can colonise the salivary glands of its host

(2019) Alaa M. Al-Khafaji et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Bacterial symbionts in human blood-feeding arthropods: Patterns, general mechanisms and effects of global ecological changes

(2018) J. Guillermo Jiménez-Cortés et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Gut Microbes Egested during Bites of Infected Sand Flies Augment Severity of Leishmaniasis via Inflammasome-Derived IL-1β

(2018) Ranadhir Dey et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Vital Signs: Trends in Reported Vectorborne Disease Cases — United States and Territories, 2004–2016

(2018) Ronald Rosenberg et al.   MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT

Field-collected Triatoma sordida from central Brazil display high microbiota diversity that varies with regard to developmental stage and intestinal segmentation

(2018) Joana L. Oliveira et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Bacterial community composition in the salivary glands of triatomines (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)

(2018) Michele Souza Lima et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Phylogeography of Ticks (Acari: Ixodida)

(2018) Lorenza Beati et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Bacterial microbiome of the chigger mite Leptotrombidium imphalum varies by life stage and infection with the scrub typhus pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi

(2018) Loganathan Ponnusamy et al.   PLoS One

The evolutionary development of plant-feeding insects and their nutritional endosymbionts

(2017) Isabel H. Skidmore et al.   Insect Science

Tick Haller’s Organ, a New Paradigm for Arthropod Olfaction: How Ticks Differ from Insects

(2017) Ann Carr et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Microbial control of arthropod-borne disease

(2017) Miguel A Saldaña et al.   MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ

Bacterial microbiota associated with Rhipicephalus sanguineus (s.l.) ticks from France, Senegal and Arizona

(2017) Magalie René-Martellet et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Microbial population analysis of the midgut of Melophagus ovinus via high-throughput sequencing

(2017) De-Yong Duan et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Bacterial diversity of wild-caught Lutzomyia longipalpis (a vector of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil) under distinct physiological conditions by metagenomics analysis

(2017) Ana Clara Araújo Machado Pires et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Bacteria-mediated hypoxia functions as a signal for mosquito development

(2017) Kerri L. Coon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Unravelling the relationship between the tsetse fly and its obligate symbiont Wigglesworthia : transcriptomic and metabolomic landscapes reveal highly integrated physiological networks

(2017) XiaoLi Bing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Dose Makes the Poison: Nutritional Overload Determines the Life Traits of Blood-Feeding Arthropods

(2017) Marcos Sterkel et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

The Gut Microbiome of the Vector Lutzomyia longipalpis Is Essential for Survival of Leishmania infantum

(2017) Patrick H. Kelly et al.   mBio

An integrated overview of the midgut bacterial flora composition of Phlebotomus perniciosus, a vector of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis in the Western Mediterranean Basin

(2017) Wael Fraihi et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

The Tick Microbiome: Why Non-pathogenic Microorganisms Matter in Tick Biology and Pathogen Transmission

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

Laboratory colonization stabilizes the naturally dynamic microbiome composition of field collected Dermacentor andersoni ticks

(2017) Cory A. Gall et al.   Microbiome

A Coxiella mutualist symbiont is essential to the development of Rhipicephalus microplus

(2017) Melina Garcia Guizzo et al.   Scientific Reports

Comparison of synganglion neuropeptides, neuropeptide receptors and neurotransmitter receptors and their gene expression in response to feeding inIxodes scapularis(Ixodidae) vs.Ornithodoros turicata(Argasidae)

(2016) N. Egekwu et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Microbiome changes through ontogeny of a tick pathogen vector

(2016) Christine P. Zolnik et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Grandeur Alliances: Symbiont Metabolic Integration and Obligate Arthropod Hematophagy

(2016) Rita V.M. Rio et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Ancestral reconstruction of tick lineages

(2016) Ben J. Mans et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Under-Expression of Chemosensory Genes in Domiciliary Bugs of the Chagas Disease Vector Triatoma brasiliensis

(2016) Axelle Marchant et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Comparison of placenta samples with contamination controls does not provide evidence for a distinct placenta microbiota

(2016) Abigail P. Lauder et al.   Microbiome

The reproductive tracts of two malaria vectors are populated by a core microbiome and by gender- and swarm-enriched microbial biomarkers

(2016) Nicola Segata et al.   Scientific Reports

Variation in the Microbiota of Ixodes Ticks with Regard to Geography, Species, and Sex

(2015) Will Van Treuren et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Insect evolution

(2015) Michael S. Engel   CURRENT BIOLOGY

An insight into the functional role of thioredoxin reductase, a selenoprotein, in maintaining normal native microbiota in the Gulf Coast tick (Amblyomma maculatum)

(2015) K. Budachetri et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The characterization and manipulation of the bacterial microbiome of the Rocky Mountain wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni

(2015) Katie A. Clayton et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Achilles, a New Family of Transcriptionally Active Retrotransposons from the Olive Fruit Fly, with Y Chromosome Preferential Distribution

(2015) Konstantina T. Tsoumani et al.   PLoS One

Tick microbiome: the force within

(2015) Sukanya Narasimhan et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Role of Rhipicephalus microplus cheliceral receptors in gustation and host differentiation

(2015) Lorena Lopes Ferreira et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

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

(2015) Daniel J. Hunter et al.   PLoS One

Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses

(2014) Susannah J Salter et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Gut Microbiota of the Tick Vector Ixodes scapularis Modulate Colonization of the Lyme Disease Spirochete

(2014) Sukanya Narasimhan et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

An Insight Into the Microbiome of theAmblyomma maculatum(Acari: Ixodidae)

(2014) Khemraj Budachetri et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

The Molecular Basis of Bacterial–Insect Symbiosis

(2014) Angela E. Douglas   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Ixodes pacificus Ticks Maintain Embryogenesis and Egg Hatching after Antibiotic Treatment of Rickettsia Endosymbiont

(2014) Andre H. Kurlovs et al.   PLoS One

The composition and transmission of microbiome in hard tick, Ixodes persulcatus, during blood meal

(2014) Xue-Chao Zhang et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Four simple stimuli that induce host-seeking and blood-feeding behaviors in two mosquito species, with a clue to DEET's mode of action

(2013) Jerome A. Klun et al.   JOURNAL OF VECTOR ECOLOGY

The impact of microbial symbionts on host plant utilization by herbivorous insects

(2013) Allison K. Hansen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Modulation of Malaria Infection in Anopheles gambiae Mosquitoes Exposed to Natural Midgut Bacteria

(2013) Majoline T. Tchioffo et al.   PLoS One

Midgut Microbial Community of Culex quinquefasciatus Mosquito Populations from India

(2013) Kshitij Chandel et al.   PLoS One

Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

(2013) Margaret McFall-Ngai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Endosymbiosis

(2012) Jennifer J. Wernegreen   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The arthropod, but not the vertebrate host or its environment, dictates bacterial community composition of fleas and ticks

(2012) Hadas Hawlena et al.   ISME Journal

Chemosensory behaviors of parasites

(2012) Keely E. Chaisson et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Midgut Microbiota of the Malaria Mosquito Vector Anopheles gambiae and Interactions with Plasmodium falciparum Infection

(2012) Anne Boissière et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Dynamics of digestive proteolytic system during blood feeding of the hard tick Ixodes ricinus

(2011) Zdeněk Franta et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Dynamic Gut Microbiome across Life History of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae in Kenya

(2011) Ying Wang et al.   PLoS One

The host range of the male-killing symbiont Arsenophonus nasoniae in filth fly parasitioids

(2010) Graeme P. Taylor et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Modulation of cutaneous inflammation induced by ticks in contrasting phenotypes of infestation in bovines

(2009) Wanessa Araújo Carvalho et al.   VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

Detection of Wolbachia Bacteria in Multiple Organs and Feces of the Triatomine Insect Rhodnius pallescens (Hemiptera, Reduviidae)

(2008) C. I. Espino et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

First divergence time estimate of spiders, scorpions, mites and ticks (subphylum: Chelicerata) inferred from mitochondrial phylogeny

(2008) Ayyamperumal Jeyaprakash et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY