Whole genome sequencing reveals variation in immune and nervous systems associated with harbor seal susceptibility to phocine distemper virus.

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Anthropogenic pressures have increased the emergence and spread of infectious diseases in wildlife in recent decades, with cascading impacts on ecosystem dynamics and elevated risk to public health. Understanding factors that contribute to disease severity, and population- and community-level impacts, is critical to predicting and mitigating infectious disease outbreaks. We aimed to investigate how host genetic...

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