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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Insect Mol Biol. 2016 Feb 26;25(3):283–294. doi: 10.1111/imb.12218

Figure 5. Microbial load estimation within tick tissues following sublethal doses of paraquat (PQ) and H2O2 injection in Amblyomma maculatum.

Figure 5

The effects of sublethal doses of PQ are tissue-specific in the midgut tissues (A) and salivary glands tissues (B). The H2O2 injections affected bacterial colonization in a tissue specific manner in the midgut tissues (C) and salivary glands (D). The bacterial load was estimated based on quantification of overall 16S rRNA gene per 100 ticks and β-Actin by the qRT-PCR method. (**; very low values).