Repression of tick microRNA-133 induces organic anion transporting polypeptide expression critical for Anaplasma phagocytophilum survival in the vector and transmission to the vertebrate host

• Ellango Ramasamy,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2739-8229

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• Vikas Taank,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6290-4150

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• John F Anderson,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0199-8469

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• Hameeda Sultana,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Molecular Medicine, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5682-3108

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• Girish Neelakanta

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gneelaka@odu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Molecular Medicine, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8374-9604

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