Diversity of rickettsiales in the microbiome of the lone star tick, amblyomma americanum

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 354-359

  Ponnusamy, Loganathan ^a   Gonzalez, Antonio ^b   Van Treuren, Will ^b   Weiss, Sophie ^b   Parobek, Christian M ^c   Juliano, Jonathan J ^c   Knight, Rob ^b   Roe, R Michael ^a   Apperson, Charles S ^a   Meshnick, Steven R ^d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; 16S RRNA GENE; EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS; MICROBIOME; POPULATION DENSITIES; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE DIVERSITY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

BACTERIA; CALCIUM; GENES; POPULATION STATISTICS; RNA;

STARS;

BACTERIUM; BIOME; DISEASE VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NICHE; POPULATION DENSITY; TICK;

BACTERIAL DNA; OMPA OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODIDAE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; IXODIDAE; MICROBIOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84891068864     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02987-13     Document Type: Article

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