Genome-wide screen identifies novel genes required for Borrelia burgdorferi survival in its Ixodes tick vector

• James P. Phelan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: James P. Phelan, Aurelie Kern, Meghan E. Ramsey

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

  * E-mail: James.Phelan@tufts.edu (JPP); Linden.Hu@tufts.edu (STH)

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6177-5211

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• Aurelie Kern ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: James P. Phelan, Aurelie Kern, Meghan E. Ramsey

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Meghan E. Ramsey ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: James P. Phelan, Aurelie Kern, Meghan E. Ramsey

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

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Maureen E. Lundt,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Bijaya Sharma,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3432-1876

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• Tao Lin,

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

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Lihui Gao,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MD Anderson Cancer Center Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Steven J. Norris,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, McGovern Medical School at UT Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2501-8034

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• Jenny A. Hyde,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A & M University Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9442-9980

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• Jon T. Skare,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A & M University Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

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• Linden T. Hu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: James.Phelan@tufts.edu (JPP); Linden.Hu@tufts.edu (STH)

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1659-5558

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