Identification of a rickettsial endosymbiont in a soft tick Ornithodoros turicata americanus

• Lichao Liu,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

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• Daniel E. Sonenshine,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States of America, Vector Molecular Biology Section, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, United States of America

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• Hameeda Sultana,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

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• Girish Neelakanta

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

  * E-mail: gneelaka@utk.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

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

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