Mitogenomics of the tropical bont tick Amblyomma variegatum reveals vertical and horizontal transmission of Rickettsia africae

• Elisha Chatanga,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Lilongwe, Malawi, Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Wessam Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Samuel Kelava,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Naoki Hayashi,

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

  Affiliations Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Division of Parasitology, Veterinary Research Unit, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Yuma Ohari,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Division of Risk Analysis, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, One Health Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Mohamed Abdallah Mohamed Moustafa,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Department of Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt, Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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• Joseph W. Magona,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Africa Union, Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), Nairobi, Kenya

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• Kyoko Hayashida,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Collaboration and Education, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Yongjin Qiu,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Nariaki Nonaka,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Division of Parasitology, Veterinary Research Unit, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, One Health Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Ryo Nakao

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ryo.nakao@vetmed.hokudai.ac.jp

  Affiliations Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Division of Parasitology, Veterinary Research Unit, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, One Health Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3105-7603

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