Catalogue of stage-specific transcripts in Ixodes ricinus and their potential functions during the tick life-cycle.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The castor bean tick Ixodes ricinus is an important vector of several clinically important diseases, whose prevalence increases with accelerating global climate changes. Characterization of a tick life-cycle is thus of great importance. However, researchers mainly focus on specific organs of fed life stages, while early development of this tick species is largely neglected.

Methods

In an attempt to better understand the life-cycle of this widespread arthropod parasite, we sequenced the transcriptomes of four life stages (egg, larva, nymph and adult female), including unfed and partially blood-fed individuals. To enable a more reliable identification of transcripts and their comparison in all five transcriptome libraries, we validated an improved-fit set of five I.

SUBMITTER: Vechtova P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7296661 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature