The recent development of high‐throughput NGS technologies,(ie, next‐generation
sequencing) has highlighted the complexity of tick microbial communities—which include …

Among blood-sucking arthropods, ticks are recognized as being of prime global importance
because of their role as vectors of pathogens affecting human and animal health. Ticks carry …

Many animals are dependent on microbial partners that provide essential nutrients lacking
from their diet. Ticks, whose diet consists exclusively on vertebrate blood, rely on maternally …

Symbiosis with intracellular bacteria is essential for the nutrition of ticks, particularly through
the biosynthesis of B vitamins. Yet, ticks of the genus Ixodes, which include major vectors of …

Ticks are obligate hematophagous ectoparasites. They are important vectors for many
pathogens, of both medical and veterinary importance. Antibiotic residues in animal food are …

Midichloria spp. are intracellular bacterial symbionts of ticks. Representatives of this genus
colonise mitochondria in the cells of their hosts. To shed light on this unique interaction we …

Reptiles are hosts for various tick species and tick-associated organisms, many of which are
zoonotic. However, little is known about the presence and diversity of tick-borne bacteria …

Holosporales are an alphaproteobacterial lineage encompassing bacteria obligatorily
associated with multiple diverse eukaryotes. For most representatives, little is known on the …

Ticks transmit pathogens and harbour non-pathogenic, vertically transmitted intracellular
bacteria termed endosymbionts. Almost all ticks studied to date contain 1 or more of …

A Coxiella-like endosymbiont (Coxiella-LE hereinafter) stably infects and influences
Haemaphysalis longicornis development, indicating a mutualistic relationship of Coxiella-LE …