• Coxiella endosymbiont of Rhipicephalus microplus modulates tick physiology with a major impact in blood feeding capacity 

      Guizzo, Melina Garcia; Tirloni, Lucas; Gonzalez, Sergio Alberto; Farber, Marisa Diana; Braz, Glória Regina Cardoso; Parizi, Luis Fernando; Silva, Lucas André Dedavid e; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Oliveira, Pedro Lagerblad de (2022) [Artigo de periódico]
      In the past decade, metagenomics studies exploring tick microbiota have revealed widespread interactions between bacteria and arthropods, including symbiotic interactions. Functional studies showed that obligate endosymbionts ...
    • A Coxiella mutualist symbiont is essential to the development of Rhipicephalus microplus 

      Guizzo, Melina Garcia; Parizi, Luis Fernando; Nunes, Rodrigo Dutra; Schama, Renata; Albano, Rodolpho Mattos; Tirloni, Lucas; Oldiges, Daiane Patrícia; Vieira, Ricardo Pilz; Oliveira, Wanderson Henrique Cruz; Leite, Milane de Souza; Gonzales, Sergio Alberto; Farber, Marisa Diana; Martins, Orlando; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Oliveira, Pedro Lagerblad de (2017) [Artigo de periódico]
      The cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus is a hematophagous ectoparasite that causes important economic losses in livestock. Different species of ticks harbor a symbiont bacterium of the genus Coxiella. It was showed that ...