The Tick Microbiome: The “Other Bacterial Players” in Tick Biocontrol
Hard ticks (family Ixodidae) Leisure Trousers are one of the most predominant arthropod disease vectors worldwide, second only to mosquitoes.In addition to harboring animal and human pathogens, ticks are known to carry a microbial community constituted of non-pathogenic organisms, which includes maternally inherited intracellular endosymbionts and