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Due to the ticks` ability to adjust to climate changes, their habitat is expanding quickly across Europe, and the incidences of TBD\u00b4s are increasing. Therefore, to better understand and control TBDs it is essential to expand the knowledge about the ticks\u00b4 microbiome, particularly the spatiotemporal and tissue-specific dynamics of\n                      <jats:italic>I. ricinus<\/jats:italic>\n                      bacterial community. This study was designed to investigate the differences in the detected bacterial communities according to the locations, where ticks had been collected, according to ticks\u00b4 tissue types and to seasonal impacts.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Materials and methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A total of 723 adult female\n                      <jats:italic>I. ricinus<\/jats:italic>\n                      were collected from two locations in Bavaria over a four-year period. A defined number of individual ticks were dissected; DNA was extracted from tissue samples or complete ticks, and subsequently 16S rRNA-gene amplicon sequencing was performed.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results and discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      No clear impact of the seasons was detected across the complete four-year period. However, a yearly seasonal pattern was observed in spring (Sp) compared to autumn (Au). Particularly, Sp22, Sp23 and Sp24 showed no difference in effective richness. These results are consistent with previous studies. While the species richness changed between different locations, the effective richness did not. Specific tissue samples of the ticks recovered by dissection (salivary glands, midgut, exoskeleton) carried significant, distinct bacterial communities. 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