Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Genomic insights into the Ixodes scapularis tick vector of Lyme disease

  • Monika Gulia-Nuss,
  • Andrew B. Nuss,
  • Jason M. Meyer,
  • Daniel E. Sonenshine,
  • R. Michael Roe,
  • Robert M. Waterhouse,
  • David B. Sattelle,
  • José de la Fuente,
  • Jose M. Ribeiro,
  • Karine Megy,
  • Jyothi Thimmapuram,
  • Jason R. Miller,
  • Brian P. Walenz,
  • Sergey Koren,
  • Jessica B. Hostetler,
  • Mathangi Thiagarajan,
  • Vinita S. Joardar,
  • Linda I. Hannick,
  • Shelby Bidwell,
  • Martin P. Hammond,
  • Sarah Young,
  • Qiandong Zeng,
  • Jenica L. Abrudan,
  • Francisca C. Almeida,
  • Nieves Ayllón,
  • Ketaki Bhide,
  • Brooke W. Bissinger,
  • Elena Bonzon-Kulichenko,
  • Steven D. Buckingham,
  • Daniel R. Caffrey,
  • Melissa J. Caimano,
  • Vincent Croset,
  • Timothy Driscoll,
  • Don Gilbert,
  • Joseph J. Gillespie,
  • Gloria I. Giraldo-Calderón,
  • Jeffrey M. Grabowski,
  • David Jiang,
  • Sayed M. S. Khalil,
  • Donghun Kim,
  • Katherine M. Kocan,
  • Juraj Koči,
  • Richard J. Kuhn,
  • Timothy J. Kurtti,
  • Kristin Lees,
  • Emma G. Lang,
  • Ryan C. Kennedy,
  • Hyeogsun Kwon,
  • Rushika Perera,
  • Yumin Qi,
  • Justin D. Radolf,
  • Joyce M. Sakamoto,
  • Alejandro Sánchez-Gracia,
  • Maiara S. Severo,
  • Neal Silverman,
  • Ladislav Šimo,
  • Marta Tojo,
  • Cristian Tornador,
  • Janice P. Van Zee,
  • Jesús Vázquez,
  • Filipe G. Vieira,
  • Margarita Villar,
  • Adam R. Wespiser,
  • Yunlong Yang,
  • Jiwei Zhu,
  • Peter Arensburger,
  • Patricia V. Pietrantonio,
  • Stephen C. Barker,
  • Renfu Shao,
  • Evgeny M. Zdobnov,
  • Frank Hauser,
  • Cornelis J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen,
  • Yoonseong Park,
  • Julio Rozas,
  • Richard Benton,
  • Joao H. F. Pedra,
  • David R. Nelson,
  • Maria F. Unger,
  • Jose M. C. Tubio,
  • Zhijian Tu,
  • Hugh M. Robertson,
  • Martin Shumway,
  • Granger Sutton,
  • Jennifer R. Wortman,
  • Daniel Lawson,
  • Stephen K. Wikel,
  • Vishvanath M. Nene,
  • Claire M. Fraser,
  • Frank H. Collins,
  • Bruce Birren,
  • Karen E. Nelson,
  • Elisabet Caler,
  • Catherine A. Hill

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10507
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Ticks transmit a large number of pathogens that cause human diseases. Here, the authors sequence the genome of the tick Ixodes scapularisand uncover expansion of genes associated with parasitic processes unique to ticks and tick-host interactions.