AUTHOR=de la Fuente José , Waterhouse Robert M. , Sonenshine Daniel E. , Roe R. Michael , Ribeiro Jose M. , Sattelle David B. , Hill Catherine A. 

TITLE=Tick Genome Assembled: New Opportunities for Research on Tick-Host-Pathogen Interactions

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

VOLUME=6

YEAR=2016

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-and-infection-microbiology/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2016.00103

DOI=10.3389/fcimb.2016.00103

ISSN=2235-2988

ABSTRACT=<p>As tick-borne diseases are on the rise, an international effort resulted in the sequence and assembly of the first genome of a tick vector. This result promotes research on comparative, functional and evolutionary genomics and the study of tick-host-pathogen interactions to improve human, animal and ecosystem health on a global scale.</p>