… tick microbiome and virome studies utilize equivalent methods to provide an improved
representation of the microbial diversity in ticks … that questing ticks were used in this study as ticks …

… and by biological variables related to the life cycle of Ixodid ticks. This … the significance of the
tick microbiome in tick biology. … tick microbiomes are displayed in the pie charts for each tick …

… ticks were collected from different animal species across New Zealand to characterise the
associated virome and microbiome, … vertical questing height determines the type of host a tick …

… of tick metagenomes, transcriptomes and viromes (Table 1). … genomes, transcriptomes, or
viromes of the microbiome [22], and … , salivary glands and saliva of questing ticks with NGS [53]. …

… Our findings were consistent with other studies reporting that hard tick microbiomes are
dominated by a small number of bacterial species, most of which are endosymbionts (20, 64). …

… tick biology and environment contribute to microbiome composition and pathogen prevalence
in natural tick … Questing adults were captured by flagging with 1-m 2 white flannel fabric …

… the microbiome: a tick questing towards a trap in the vegetation (ie to a resting host) is exposed
to a different environment than a tick questing … of the microbiome that influence questing …

… tick-borne taxa, including 10 novel putative species. Overall, a wide range of tick-borne
microorganisms were found in questing ticks … The virome of I. holocyclus has been interrogated …

… , studies focused on the characterization of the tick microbiome are scant, partly due to the
… This study focused on characterizing the virome of questing D. reticulatus, I. ricinus, and H. …

… Moreover, our understanding of tick microbiota in North America is currently biased towards
… (22) in a large metagenomic survey of the virome of ticks in China, we identified four …