Geographic and Orientia infection status influence on the bacterial microbiome of free-living chiggers in North Carolina, USA

• Kaiying Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  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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• Nicholas V. Travanty,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, 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 A. Garshong,

  Roles Methodology, 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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1801-3806

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• Gideon Wasserberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, 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, Supervision, Visualization, 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, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, 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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