Impacts of Tick Parasitism on the Rodent Gut Microbiome.

Robert Jory Brinkerhoff, Joshua Pandian, Meghan Leber, Isabella D Hauser, Holly D Gaff

Abstract read

In one paragraph

Article in Microorganisms, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

1citing papers in PubMed

–field-weighted citation impact

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

Characterization of the gut microbiome of wildFrontiers in microbiomes · 2026
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Robert Jory BrinkerhoffBiology Department, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA.

Joshua PandianBiology Department, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA.

Meghan LeberBiology Department, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA.ORCID 0009-0007-6603-1562

Isabella D HauserBiology Department, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA.

Holly D GaffBiology Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA.

Funding

NIH HHS 5R01AI136035

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Host microbiota may impact disease vector behavior and pathogen transmission, but little is known about associations between ectoparasites and microbial communities in wildlife reservoir species. We used Illumina metagenomic sequencing to explore the impacts of tick parasitism on the rodent fecal microbiome in both a field and laboratory setting. We found that tick parasitism on wild hosts was associated with variation in the fecal microbiota of both the white-footed deermouse,

Indexed as

Ixodes scapularisLyme diseasePeromyscus leucopusSigmodon hispidusvector-borne diseasezoonoses

Identifiers

PMID40284724

DOI10.3390/microorganisms13040888

PMCPMC12029286

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata

LicenceCC BY

Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.