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Our last work on Midichloria is out in preprint
Our last work on Midichloria, “The origin and evolution of mitochondrial tropism in Midichloria bacteria”, is out in preprint
Read MoreNew publication: screening for Midichloria bacteria in ticks
The team, in an international collaborative effort, published an article on the journal Ticks and Tick borne diseases Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii, symbiont of the sheep tick Ixodes ricinus, was the first described member of the family Candidatus Midichloriaceae, order Rickettsiales. Recent reports are expanding our view of this family, now including bacteria of great biological […]
Read MoreNew publication on Proteomics of Ixodes ricinus
The group published the manuscript ‘Ixodes ricinus and Its Endosymbiont Midichloria mitochondrii: A Comparative Proteomic Analysis of Salivary Glands and Ovaries’on PLOS ONE. The work was conducted in collaboration with University of Milano, and INRA in Nantes. Hard ticks are hematophagous arthropods that act as vectors of numerous pathogenic microorganisms of high relevance in human and veterinary […]
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