Detection of Wolbachia in the Tick Ixodes ricinus is Due to the Presence of the Hymenoptera Endoparasitoid Ixodiphagus hookeri

• Olivier Plantard ,

  * E-mail: olivier.plantard@oniris-nantes.fr

  Affiliations Biology, Epidemiology and Risk Analysis in Animal Health, (BioEpAR), INRA, UMR 1300, Nantes, France, LUNAM Université, Oniris, Nantes, France

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• Agnès Bouju-Albert,

  Affiliations Biology, Epidemiology and Risk Analysis in Animal Health, (BioEpAR), INRA, UMR 1300, Nantes, France, LUNAM Université, Oniris, Nantes, France

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• Marie-Astrid Malard,

  Affiliations Biology, Epidemiology and Risk Analysis in Animal Health, (BioEpAR), INRA, UMR 1300, Nantes, France, LUNAM Université, Oniris, Nantes, France

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• Axelle Hermouet,

  Affiliations Biology, Epidemiology and Risk Analysis in Animal Health, (BioEpAR), INRA, UMR 1300, Nantes, France, LUNAM Université, Oniris, Nantes, France

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• Gilles Capron,

  Affiliation ONCFS, DIR Poitou-Charentes-Limousin, Paris, France

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• Hélène Verheyden

  Affiliation Comportement et Ecologie de la Faune Sauvage (CEFS), INRA, UR 035, Castanet-Tolosan, France

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