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Comparative genomics reveals multiple pathways to mutualism for tick-borne pathogens

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Genomics, July 2016
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Title
Comparative genomics reveals multiple pathways to mutualism for tick-borne pathogens
Published in
BMC Genomics, July 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12864-016-2744-9
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Svetlana Lockwood, Kelly A. Brayton, Shira L. Broschat

Abstract

Multiple important human and livestock pathogens employ ticks as their primary host vectors. It is not currently known whether this means of infecting a host arose once or many times during evolution. In order to address this question, we conducted a comparative genomics analysis on a set of bacterial pathogens from seven genera - Borrelia, Rickettsia, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, Francisella, Coxiella, and Bartonella, including species from three different host vectors - ticks, lice, and fleas. The final set of 102 genomes used in the study encoded a total of 120,046 protein sequences. We found that no genes or metabolic pathways were present in all tick-borne bacteria. However, we found some genes and pathways were present in subsets of tick-transmitted organisms while absent from bacteria transmitted by lice or fleas. Our analysis suggests that the ability of pathogens to be transmitted by ticks arose multiple times over the course of evolution. To our knowledge, this is the most comprehensive study of tick transmissibility to date.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 4%
United States 1 2%
Sweden 1 2%
Unknown 48 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 13 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 21%
Student > Master 6 12%
Professor 4 8%
Student > Bachelor 3 6%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 7 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 33%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 12%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 5 10%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 6%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 8 15%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 September 2017.
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