Rickettsia parkeri Hijacks Tick Hemocytes to Manipulate Cellular and Humoral Transcriptional Responses
A. Adegoke, J. M. C. Ribeiro, S. Brown, R. C. Smith, S. Karim
This study identifies five hemocyte populations in ticks and shows Rickettsia parkeri infects phagocytic hemocytes, altering immune gene expression and phagocytosis.
bioRxiv · Nov 9, 2022 · PreprintImmunology