Microbiome and mitogenomics of the chigger mite Pentidionis agamae: potential role as an Orientia vector and associations with divergent clades of Wolbachia and Borrelia - Alkathiry, Hadil A.; Alghamdi, Samia Q.; Sinha, Amit; Margos, Gabriele; Stekolnikov, Alexandr A.; Alagaili, Abdulaziz N.; Darby, Alistair C.; Makepeace, Benjamin L.; Khoo, Jing Jing (BMC genomics, 2024)
Keywords: Analysis; Arthropods; Bacteria; Borrelia; Chiggers; Control; Cytochrome-c oxidase; Deoxyribonucleic acid; Discordance; Divergence; DNA; DNA sequencing; Endosymbionts; Fever; Gene sequencing; Genetic aspects; Genomes; HtrA gene; Identification and classification; Intraspecific relationships; Larvae; Metagenomics; Methods; Microbiomes; Mites; Multilocus sequence typing; Nucleotide sequencing; Orientia; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Pathogens; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Polymerase chain reaction; Prevention; Public health; Risk factors; Rodents; rRNA 16S; Scrub typhus; Single-nucleotide polymorphism; Spirochetes; Taxonomy; Typhus; Vector control; Vectors; Vertebrates; Wolbachia; Zoonoses; Saudi Arabia; Southeast Asia; United Arab Emirates; Dubai United Arab Emirates; Kenya; Chile; Metagenomics; Borrelia; Scrub typhus; Acomys dimidiatus; Wolbachia; Mitochondrial genome; Chiggers; Orientia