Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (Sep 2016)

Tick genome assembled: new opportunities for research on tick-host-pathogen interactions

  • Jose De La Fuente,
  • Robert M Waterhouse,
  • Daniel E. Sonenshine,
  • R. Michael Roe,
  • Jose Ribeiro,
  • David B Sattelle,
  • Catherine A Hill

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2016.00103
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6

Abstract

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As tick-borne diseases are on the rise, an international effort resulted in the sequence and assembly of the first genome of a tick vector. This result promotes research on comparative, functional and evolutionary genomics and the study of tick-host-pathogen interactions to improve human, animal and ecosystem health on a global scale.

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