title: Bacterial communities of two tick species and blood of their shared rodent host
design: Ticks (Dermacentor variabilis (dog tick) and Ixodes scapularis (black-legged deer tick) were collected from wild white-footed mice. DNA was extracted from whole ticks and primers with unique barcodes were used to amplify the amplify the V1-V3 region of bacterial 16S rRNA gene.