Résumé
We have reconstructed the genomes of bacterial endosymbionts (Coxiella-LE,
Francisella-LE and Coxiella burnetii) from the tick metagenomes of the
BioProject PRJCA002242 available on the BIGD database
(https://bigd.big.ac.cn/). Jia et al. (Jia et al., 2020,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.07.023; the original paper of the
BioProject PRJCA002242) reported major discoveries on the genetic basis of
hematophagy and vector capacities in ticks. Our re-examination of the tick
metagenomic datasets shows that nutritional endosymbionts required for
hematophagy were also widely present. They were misidentified as
tick-borne pathogens. This present dataset includes these new assembled
genomes of tick endosymbionts.