Summary of a workflow taking advantage of the symmetrical body plan of ticks. All tick samples were longitudinally bisected, each half being subjected to <t>DNA</t> extraction by either the <t>ISOLATE</t> Fecal DNA kit (Method 1) or the ISOLATE II Genomic DNA Kit (Method 2). All samples were sequenced using gene diversity profiling assays, targeting both the V1-V3 and V3-V4 16S rRNA hypervariable regions
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