Identification of a rickettsial endosymbiont in a soft tick Ornithodoros turicata americanus.
Bacterial endosymbionts are abundantly found in both hard and soft ticks. Occidentia massiliensis, a rickettsial endosymbiont, was first identified in the soft tick Ornithodoros sonrai collected from Senegal and later was identified in a hard tick Africaniella transversale. In this study, we noted t...
Main Authors: | Lichao Liu, Daniel E Sonenshine, Hameeda Sultana, Girish Neelakanta |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2022-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278582 |
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