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Longitudinal Impacts of Forest Loss on Bartonella and Hemotropic Mycoplasma Dynamics in Vampire Bats Within a Fragmented Habitat.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jul 2026
Lock Lauren R, Dyer Kristin E, Volokhov Dmitriy V, Yang Anni, Fenton M Brock, Simmons Nancy B, Becker Daniel J
Abstract excerpt
Habitat fragmentation can negatively impact wildlife, including increasing infectious disease risk. We assessed spatiotemporal changes in pathogen dynamics in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) in response to habitat fragmentation using general linear mixed models to investigate the influence of site, year, and tree cover on Bartonella spp. and hemotropic Mycoplasma spp. (hemoplasmas) infection risk in bats in one...
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