Microbiome and mitogenomics of the chigger mite Pentidionis agamae: potential role as an Orientia vector and associations with divergent clades of Wolbachia and Borrelia

• Published in: BMC genomics Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 380 - 18
• Main Authors: 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
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 17.04.2024; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: 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

Trombiculid mites are globally distributed, highly diverse arachnids that largely lack molecular resources such as whole mitogenomes for the elucidation of taxonomic relationships. Trombiculid larvae (chiggers) parasitise vertebrates and can transmit bacteria (Orientia spp.) responsible for scrub ty...