scholarly journals The expanding spectrum of disease caused by the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 378-385
Keyword(s):  
Amblyomma Americanum ◽  
Lone Star Tick

A Novel Phospholipase A2Activity in Saliva of the Lone Star Tick,Amblyomma americanum(L.)

1997 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Bowman ◽  
C.L. Gengler ◽  
M.R. Surdick ◽  
K. Zhu ◽  
R.C. Essenberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Amblyomma Americanum ◽  
Lone Star Tick

scholarly journals Why so many unknown genes? Partitioning orphans from a representative transcriptome of the lone star tick Amblyomma americanum

BMC Genomics ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda K Gibson ◽  
Zach Smith ◽  
Clay Fuqua ◽  
Keith Clay ◽  
John K Colbourne
Keyword(s):  
Amblyomma Americanum ◽  
Lone Star Tick

scholarly journals The bacterial community of the lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum)

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Paulina Maldonado-Ruiz ◽  
Saraswoti Neupane ◽  
Yoonseong Park ◽  
Ludek Zurek
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Community ◽  
Amblyomma Americanum ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Culturable Bacteria ◽  
Core Microbiome ◽  
Lone Star Tick ◽  
Animal Pathogens ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Culture Independent ◽  
Culture Dependent

Abstract Background The lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum), an important vector of a wide range of human and animal pathogens, is very common throughout the East and Midwest of the USA. Ticks are known to carry non-pathogenic bacteria that may play a role in their vector competence for pathogens. Several previous studies using the high throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies reported the commensal bacteria in a tick midgut as abundant and diverse. In contrast, in our preliminary survey of the field collected adult lone star ticks, we found the number of culturable/viable bacteria very low. Methods We aimed to analyze the bacterial community of A. americanum by a parallel culture-dependent and a culture-independent approach applied to individual ticks. Results We analyzed 94 adult females collected in eastern Kansas and found that 60.8% of ticks had no culturable bacteria and the remaining ticks carried only 67.7 ± 42.8 colony-forming units (CFUs)/tick representing 26 genera. HTS of the 16S rRNA gene resulted in a total of 32 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) with the dominant endosymbiotic genera Coxiella and Rickettsia (> 95%). Remaining OTUs with very low abundance were typical soil bacterial taxa indicating their environmental origin. Conclusions No correlation was found between the CFU abundance and the relative abundance from the culture-independent approach. This suggests that many culturable taxa detected by HTS but not by culture-dependent method were not viable or were not in their culturable state. Overall, our HTS results show that the midgut bacterial community of A. americanum is very poor without a core microbiome and the majority of bacteria are endosymbiotic.

The effects of water exposure, soil conditions, and fungus exposure on hatching of the larval lone star tick,Amblyomma americanum(Acari: Ixodidae)

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 344-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay A. Yoder ◽  
Benjamin A. Rausch ◽  
Brian Z. Hedges ◽  
Sarah E. Stueber ◽  
Andrew J. Jajack ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Amblyomma Americanum ◽  
Soil Conditions ◽  
Lone Star Tick ◽  
Water Exposure

scholarly journals Repurposing of Glycine-Rich Proteins in Abiotic and Biotic Stresses in the Lone-Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum)

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebekah Bullard ◽  
Surendra Raj Sharma ◽  
Pradipta Kumar Das ◽  
Sarah E. Morgan ◽  
Shahid Karim
Keyword(s):  
Amblyomma Americanum ◽  
Abiotic And Biotic Stresses ◽  
Lone Star Tick ◽  
Biotic Stresses

scholarly journals Current and Future Distribution of the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum (L.) (Acari: Ixodidae) in North America

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. e0209082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ram K. Raghavan ◽  
A. Townsend Peterson ◽  
Marlon E. Cobos ◽  
Roman Ganta ◽  
Des Foley
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Amblyomma Americanum ◽  
Lone Star Tick

Effects of a lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum) burden on performance and metabolic indicators in growing beef steers

2010 ◽  
Vol 173 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 99-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.R. Tolleson ◽  
P.D. Teel ◽  
J.W. Stuth ◽  
O.F. Strey ◽  
T.H. Welsh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Amblyomma Americanum ◽  
Beef Steers ◽  
Lone Star Tick
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