Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz | INRA Ixodes scapularis ticks harbor microbial communities including pathogenic and non-pathogenic microbes. Pathogen infection increases the expression of several tick gut genes, which disturb the tick gut microbiota and impact bacterial biofilm formation. Here, we tested the resistance (insensitivity to disturbance) of tick microbiota and tick microbiome to pathogen infection, antimicrobial peptides […]
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