What is it about?

How metabolism can play a role in establising a relationship between arthropod and the disease causing microbes it carries.

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Why is it important?

Tick-borne diseases are very prominent in the United States and other parts of the world, this work would open new avenues to better understand tick biology.

Perspectives

This work demonstrates a research platform to carry out metabolism related studies in a 'not so well understood' system as the deer tick or Ixodes scapularis that causes Lyme disease.

sourabh samaddar
University of Maryland Baltimore

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This page is a summary of: Bacterial reprogramming of tick metabolism impacts vector fitness and susceptibility to infection, Nature Microbiology, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1038/s41564-024-01756-0.
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