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Ecological and evolutionary drivers of haemoplasma infection and bacterial genotype sharing in a Neotropical bat community.
Molecular ecology - 1 Apr 2020
Becker Daniel J, Speer Kelly A, Brown Alexis M, Fenton M Brock, Washburne Alex D, Altizer Sonia, Streicker Daniel G, Plowright Raina K, Chizhikov Vladimir E, Simmons Nancy B, Volokhov Dmitriy V
Abstract excerpt
Most emerging pathogens can infect multiple species, underlining the importance of understanding the ecological and evolutionary factors that allow some hosts to harbour greater infection prevalence and share pathogens with other species. However, our understanding of pathogen jumps is based primarily around viruses, despite bacteria accounting for the greatest proportion of zoonoses. Because bacterial pathogens...
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