{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["13"],"submitter":["Militzer N"],"pubmed_abstract":["Artificial tick feeding systems (ATFS) can be used to study tick biology and tick-pathogen interactions. Due to the long feeding duration of hard ticks, antibiotics are commonly added to the <i>in vitro</i> blood meal to prevent the blood from decaying. This may affect the ticks' microbiome, including mutualistic bacteria that play an important role in tick biology. This effect was examined by the consecutive feeding of <i>Ixodes ricinus</i> larvae, nymphs, and adults <i>in vitro</i> with and without the supplementation of gentamicin and in parallel on calves. DNA extracted from unfed females was analyzed by 16S rRNA sequencing. The abundance of <i>Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii</i>, <i>Rickettsia helvetica</i> and <i>Spiroplasma</i> spp. was measured by qPCR in unfed larvae, nymphs, "],"journal":["Frontiers in microbiology"],"pagination":["1050063"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9871825"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Changes in the <i>Ixodes ricinus</i> microbiome associated with artificial tick feeding."],"pmcid":["PMC9871825"],"pubmed_authors":["Nijhof AM","Militzer N","Pinecki Socias S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Changes in the <i>Ixodes ricinus</i> microbiome associated with artificial tick feeding.","description":"Artificial tick feeding systems (ATFS) can be used to study tick biology and tick-pathogen interactions. Due to the long feeding duration of hard ticks, antibiotics are commonly added to the <i>in vitro</i> blood meal to prevent the blood from decaying. This may affect the ticks' microbiome, including mutualistic bacteria that play an important role in tick biology. This effect was examined by the consecutive feeding of <i>Ixodes ricinus</i> larvae, nymphs, and adults <i>in vitro</i> with and without the supplementation of gentamicin and in parallel on calves. DNA extracted from unfed females was analyzed by 16S rRNA sequencing. The abundance of <i>Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii</i>, <i>Rickettsia helvetica</i> and <i>Spiroplasma</i> spp. was measured by qPCR in unfed larvae, nymphs, ","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022","modification":"2026-07-14T19:12:17.162Z","creation":"2025-04-04T11:25:41.337Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9871825","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36704557"],"doi":["10.3389/fmicb.2022.1050063"]}}