Fig. 4

Microbiome of D. andersoni ticks in field-caught and lab-reared individuals. The bacterial composition of the midgut (MG) and salivary glands (SG) of adult male (a) Burns and (b) Lake Como ticks was characterized in F0 and F1 individual ticks from 2014. Species/genera detected included Arsenophonus spp. (blue), FLE (red), Francisella spp. (light green), Rickettsia spp. (purple), R. bellii (orange), R. peacockii (dark green), R. rhipicephali (dark blue), Ralstonia spp. (dark purple), Ralstonia pickettii (black), Oxalobacteraceae (yellow), Burkholderiaceae (light brown), rare (dark red), and unclassified (light blue)