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, Waterhouse, Robert M., Sonenshine, Daniel E., Roe, R. Michael, Ribeiro, Jose M., Sattelle, David B., Hill, Catherine A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5024572/