The mitochondrial genome of a Texas outbreak strain of the cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, derived from whole genome sequencing Pacific Biosciences and Illumina reads

J.K. McCooke; F.D. Guerrero; R.A. Barrero; M. Black; A. Hunter; C. Bell; F. Schilkey; R.J. Miller; M.I. Bellgard

doi:10.1016/j.gene.2015.06.060

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The mitochondrial genome of a Texas outbreak strain of the cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, derived from whole genome sequencing Pacific Biosciences and Illumina reads

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The mitochondrial genome of a Texas outbreak strain of the cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, derived from whole genome sequencing Pacific Biosciences and Illumina reads

J.K. McCooke, F.D. Guerrero, R.A. Barrero, M. Black, A. Hunter, C. Bell, F. Schilkey, R.J. Miller and M.I. Bellgard

Gene, Vol.571(1), pp.135-141

2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2015.06.060

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Abstract

The cattle fever tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus is one of the most significant medical veterinary pests in the world, vectoring several serious livestock diseases negatively impacting agricultural economies of tropical and subtropical countries around the world. In our study, we assembled the complete R. microplus mitochondrial genome from Illumina and Pac Bio sequencing reads obtained from the ongoing R. microplus (Deutsch strain from Texas, USA) genome sequencing project. We compared the Deutsch strain mitogenome to the mitogenome from a Brazilian R. microplus and from an Australian cattle tick that has recently been taxonomically designated as Rhipicephalus australis after previously being considered R. microplus. The sequence divergence of the Texas and Australia ticks is much higher than the divergence between the Texas and Brazil ticks. This is consistent with the idea that the Australian ticks are distinct from the R. microplus of the Americas.

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Title: The mitochondrial genome of a Texas outbreak strain of the cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, derived from whole genome sequencing Pacific Biosciences and Illumina reads
Authors/Creators: J.K. McCooke (Author/Creator)
F.D. Guerrero (Author/Creator)
R.A. Barrero (Author/Creator)
M. Black (Author/Creator)
A. Hunter (Author/Creator)
C. Bell (Author/Creator)
F. Schilkey (Author/Creator)
R.J. Miller (Author/Creator)
M.I. Bellgard (Author/Creator)
Publication Details: Gene, Vol.571(1), pp.135-141
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Identifiers: 991005541511307891
Copyright: © 2015 Elsevier B.V.
Murdoch Affiliation: Centre for Comparative Genomics
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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Collaboration types: Domestic collaboration; International collaboration
Citation topics: 1 Clinical & Life Sciences; 1.258 Zoonotic Diseases; 1.258.227 Tick-borne Pathogens
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