title: Ornithodoros turicata Female
design: The microbiome of Ornithodoros turicata ticks was analyzed under two conditions: long-term starvation (46 years) following different feeding histories (chicken, swine, or goat blood), and post-starvation refeeding on chicken or swine blood. Bacterial communities were characterized by sequencing the V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene using the Illumina MiSeq platform (paired-end 2  251 bp)