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Bacteria of the Family 'Candidatus Midichloriaceae' in Sympatric Zones of Ixodes Ticks: Genetic Evidence for Vertical Transmission.
Microbial ecology - 1 Jul 2017
Mukhacheva Tatyana A, Kovalev Sergey Y
Abstract excerpt
Ixodes ticks transmit infectious agents and also harbor their own parasites and symbionts. The presumptive endosymbiont of Ixodes ricinus, 'Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii', has a unique ability to invade mitochondria within tick ovarian cells and is transovarially transmitted with 100% efficiency. A closely related bacterium, provisionally named Montezuma (now 'Candidatus Lariskella arthropodarum'), was...
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