Tick Genome Assembled: New Opportunities for Research on Tick-Host-Pathogen Interactions

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...

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Main Authors: de la Fuente, José, Sonenshine, Daniel E., Roe, R. Michael, Ribeiro, Jose M., Sattelle, David B., Hill, Catherine A., Waterhouse, Robert
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Frontiers Research Foundation 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107009