Article
mNGS Investigation of Single Ixodes pacificus Ticks Reveals Diverse Microbes, Viruses, and a Novel mRNA-like Endogenous Viral Elements
2022-08-18
Abstract excerpt
Ticks are increasingly important vectors of human and agricultural diseases. While many studies have focused on tick-borne bacteria, far less is known about tick-associated viruses and their roles in public health or tick physiology. To address this, we investigated patterns of bacterial and viral communities across two field populations of western black-legged ticks ( Ixodes pacificus ). Through metatranscriptom...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 81aaf586-6cdd-5cf9-8e82-1e6db3552677
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.08.17.504163
