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Demography, life-history trade-offs, and the gastrointestinal virome of wild chimpanzees
20 Sept 2020
Abstract excerpt
In humans, senescence increases susceptibility to viral infection. However, comparative data on viral infection in free-living non-human primates—even in our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos ( Pan troglodytes and P. paniscus )—are relatively scarce, thereby constraining an evolutionary understanding of age-related patterns of viral infection. We investigated a population of wild eastern...
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