Tick Microbiota from the Iberian Peninsula

We investigate the composition and structure of microbial communities across natural populations of three co-distributed tick species (Hyalomma lusitanicum, Rhipicephalus sanguineus, and Rhipicephalus bursa) in the central Iberian Peninsula (Castilla-La Mancha region). Specifically, we integrate high-throughput DNA sequencing of tick microbiota with microbial ecological analyses and network association approaches to examine the patterns of microbiota richness, dissimilarity, and microbe–microbe associations within and among these tick species, which co-occur at a microgeographic scale.