Microbial ecology of Ixodes scapularis from Central Pennsylvania, USA
Joyce M Sakamoto, Gabriel Gabriel Enrique Silva Diaz, Elizabeth Anne Wagner
The paper investigates sex-specific bacterial community diversity in Ixodes scapularis ticks from central Pennsylvania, finding higher diversity in male pools and variable dominance of taxa like Rickettsia buchneri and Borrelia burgdorferi.
bioRxiv · Jul 11, 2020Microbiology