Amblyomma americanum ticks utilizes countervailing pro and anti-inflammatory proteins to evade host defense

• Mariam Bakshi,

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

  Current address: Animal Parasitic Diseases Lab, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, TAMU, College Station, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8030-0673

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• Tae Kwon Kim,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, TAMU, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Lindsay Porter,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, TAMU, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Waithaka Mwangi,

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

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, TAMU, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2705-7571

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• Albert Mulenga

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

  * E-mail: amulenga@cvm.tamu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, TAMU, College Station, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5029-1198

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