The microbiota of Amblyomma americanum reflects known westward expansion

• Luis Martinez-Villegas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luis Martinez-Villegas, Paula Lado

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

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9628-4081

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• Paula Lado ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luis Martinez-Villegas, Paula Lado

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

  Current address: Paula Lado, National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Hans Klompen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology and Museum of Biological Diversity, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Selena Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Caleb Cummings,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1892-1069

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• Risa Pesapane,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliations Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, School of Environment and Natural Resources, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Sarah M. Short

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: short.343@osu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1074-8982

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