Preliminary Assessment of Microbiome Changes Following Blood-Feeding and Survivorship in the Amblyomma americanum Nymph-to-Adult Transition using Semiconductor Sequencing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Menchaca, Arturo C ^a   Visi, David K ^a,b   Strey, Otto F ^c   Teel, Pete D ^c   Kalinowski, Kevin ^a   Allen, Michael S ^a,b   Williamson, Phillip C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AGING; AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PARASITE SURVIVAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMICONDUCTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TICK;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA; MOLTING; NYMPH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEMICONDUCTORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STERILIZATION; TICKS;

AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; IXODIDA;

EID: 84879487667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067129     Document Type: Article

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