Meeting the challenge of tick-borne disease control: A proposal for 1000 Ixodes genomes

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
• ² Department of Infection Biology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
• ³ SaBio Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ciudad Real, Spain; Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States.
• ⁴ Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, United States.
• ⁵ Epidemiology, Parasites and Vectors, Onderstepoort Veterinary Research, Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa; Department of Life and Consumer Sciences, University of South Africa, South Africa.
• ⁶ MIVEGEC, UMR CNRS - IRD, University of Montpellier, Centre IRD, Montpellier, France.
• ⁷ BIOEPAR, INRA, Oniris, Université Bretagne Loire, Nantes, France.
• ⁸ Queensland Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia.
• ⁹ Department of Pathology, Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States.
• ¹⁰ Bioinformatics Core, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
• ¹¹ Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States; Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States. Electronic address: hillca@purdue.edu.