Orientia, Rickettsia, and the microbiome in rodent attached chiggers in North Carolina, USA

• Elise A. Richardson,

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

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Comparative Medicine Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Reuben Garshong,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Comparative Medicine Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Kaiying Chen,

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

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Comparative Medicine Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Dac Crossley,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Georgia Museum of Natural History, Natural History Building, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Bryan S. Mclean,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Gideon Wasserberg,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Charles S. Apperson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Comparative Medicine Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

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• R. Michael Roe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Comparative Medicine Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Loganathan Ponnusamy

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lponnus@ncsu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Comparative Medicine Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0700-4472

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