ReviewParasites & vectors2020
The scale affects our view on the identification and distribution of microbial communities in ticks.
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.
- Trends and Opportunities in Tick-Borne Disease Geography.Journal of medical entomology · 2021Pooled it
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- Environmental Low Temperatures Dynamically Reshape the Microbial Diversity and Community Structure of the Vector Tick Haemaphysalis longicornis.Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology · 2026Article
- Epidemiological Features and Environmental Factors of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Patients in a Highly Endemic Region: A 12-Year Surveillance Study.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Metagenomic Profile of Bacterial Communities ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Genome-resolved metagenomics reveals microbiome diversity across 48 tick species.Nature microbiology · 2025Article
- Seasonal Variations in the Microbiome of Hyalomma excavatum Ticks in Algeria.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- First Molecular Evidence ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Evolutionary Convergence of Nutritional Symbionts in Ticks.Environmental microbiology reports · 2025Article
- Exploring the microbiomes of camel ticks to infer vector competence: insights from tissue-level symbiont-pathogen relationships.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Virome analysis and detection of ticks and tick-borne viruses in Shanghai, China.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Culturable bacteria and fungi in Ixodes, Dermacentor, Amblyomma and Ornithodoros ticks.Parasite (Paris, France) · 2025Article
- Microbiome ofInsects · 2024Article
- Deciphering the microbial communities in ticks of Inner Mongolia: ecological determinants and pathogen profiles.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- The Impact of Altitude on Tick-Borne Pathogens at Two Mountain Ranges in Central Slovakia.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Detection of pathogenic bacteria in ticks from Isiolo and Kwale counties of Kenya using metagenomics.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Temporal dynamics of theCurrent research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2024Article
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8 authors at 7 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Ticks transmit the highest variety of pathogens impacting human and animal health worldwide. It is now well established that ticks also harbour a microbial complex of coexisting symbionts, commensals and pathogens. With the development of high throughput sequencing technologies, studies dealing with such diverse bacterial composition in tick considerably increased in the past years and revealed an unexpected microbial diversity. These data on diversity and composition of the tick microbes are increasingly available, giving crucial details on microbial communities in ticks and improving our knowledge on the tick microbial community. However, consensus is currently lacking as to which scales (tick organs, individual specimens or species, communities of ticks, populations adapted to particular environmental conditions, spatial and temporal scales) best facilitate characterizing microbial community composition of ticks and understanding the diverse relationships among tick-borne bacteria. Temporal or spatial scales have a clear influence on how we conduct ecological studies, interpret results, and understand interactions between organisms that build the microbiome. We consider that patterns apparent at one scale can collapse into noise when viewed from other scales, indicating that processes shaping tick microbiome have a continuum of variability that has not yet been captured. Based on available reports, this review demonstrates how much the concept of scale is crucial to be considered in tick microbial community studies to improve our knowledge on tick microbe ecology and pathogen/microbiota interactions.
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