As tick-borne diseases are on the rise, an international effort resulted in the sequence and assembly of the first genome of a tick vector. This result promotes research on comparative, functional and evolutionary genomics and the study of tick-host-pathogen interactions to improve human, animal and ecosystem health on a global scale.
Keywords: Anaplasma; Borrelia; Ixodes scapularis; evolution; genomics; proteomics; tick.