Assessment of bacterial diversity in the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplusthrough tag-encoded pyrosequencing

Andreotti, Renato; Á. Pérez de León, Adalberto; E. Dowd, Scot; D. Guerrero, Felix; G. Bendele, Kylie; A. Scoles, Glen

doi:10.1186/1471-2180-11-6

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Assessment of bacterial diversity in the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplusthrough tag-encoded pyrosequencing

Published in BMC Microbiology • Jan 6, 2011

Authors:

Renato Andreotti

Adalberto Á. Pérez de León

Scot E. Dowd

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Ticks are regarded as the most relevant vectors of disease-causing pathogens in domestic and wild animals. The cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, hinders livestock production in tropical and subtropical parts of the world where it is endemic. Tick microbiomes remain largel...

Subject

Biology

Tick

Pyrosequencing

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