Development and validation of systems for genetic manipulation of the Old World tick-borne relapsing fever spirochete, Borrelia duttonii

• Clay D. Jackson-Litteken ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Clay D. Jackson-Litteken, Wanfeng Guo

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

  Current address: Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Wanfeng Guo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Clay D. Jackson-Litteken, Wanfeng Guo

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Brandon A. Hogland,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• C. Tyler Ratliff,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• LeAnn McFadden,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Marissa S. Fullerton,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Daniel E. Voth,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Ryan O. M. Rego,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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• Jon S. Blevins

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

  * E-mail: jsblevins@uams.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6216-7365

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