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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Anna Grace Deakins

Research Technician

1 h-index 3 pubs 3 cited

  • Cattle Diseases
  • Ticks
  • Animals
  • Ehrlichia
  • Metagenomics
  • Cattle
  • Ehrlichiosis
  • Genome, Viral
  • Flaviviridae
  • Amblyomma
  • Arkansas
  • Female
  • Heartwater Disease
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Male

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Anna Grace Deakins is a research technician at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Her research focuses on the identification and characterization of microbial communities in animals, particularly cattle, and the ticks that affect them. Deakins has contributed to studies investigating natural infections in Angus beef calves and the microbial diversity within ticks collected from pastured cattle. Her work also involves the application of metagenomic sequencing to uncover viral genomes, including Jingmen tick virus, across different geographic locations. She has published three papers and has a citation count of three, with an h-index of one. Deakins collaborates with researchers Emily G McDermott, Kelly Loftin, and Cierra Briggs, all affiliated with the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Metrics

  • h-index: 1
  • Publications: 3
  • Citations: 3

Positions

  • Research Technician 2023–present
    University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Entomology and Plant Pathology ORCID

Selected Publications

  • Metagenomic sequencing provides insight into pathogenic and related benign microbes in ticks collected from pastured cattle (2026)
    Veterinary Microbiology DOI OpenAlex
  • Unbiased long read metagenomic screening reveals diverse jingmen tick virus genomes across continents (2026)
    Virology DOI OpenAlex
  • Natural Panola Mountain Ehrlichia infections in cattle in a longitudinal study of Angus beef calves (2024)
    Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 3 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Collaboration Network

27 Collaborators 13 Institutions 3 Countries

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