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Open AccessVariation in herbivore space use: comparing two savanna ecosystems with different anthrax outbreak patterns in southern Africa
The distribution of resources can affect animal range sizes, which in turn may alter infectious disease dynamics in heterogenous environments. The risk of pathogen exposure or the spatial extent of outbreaks m...
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Open AccessLinking migration and microbiota at a major stopover site in a long-distance avian migrant
Migration is one of the most physical and energetically demanding periods in an individual bird’s life. The composition of the bird’s gut or cloacal microbiota can temporarily change during migration, likely d...
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Hunting shapes wildlife disease transmission
A landscape-level natural experiment in free-ranging pumas reveals how changes in hunting pressure alter viral evolution and infection dynamics through indirect effects on puma population size, demography and ...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Genetic structure of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae informs pathogen spillover dynamics between domestic and wild Caprinae in the western United States
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Open AccessGenetic structure of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae informs pathogen spillover dynamics between domestic and wild Caprinae in the western United States
Spillover diseases have significant consequences for human and animal health, as well as wildlife conservation. We examined spillover and transmission of the pneumonia-associated bacterium Mycoplasma ovipneumonia...
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Open AccessGenomics reveals historic and contemporary transmission dynamics of a bacterial disease among wildlife and livestock
Whole-genome sequencing has provided fundamental insights into infectious disease epidemiology, but has rarely been used for examining transmission dynamics of a bacterial pathogen in wildlife. In the Greater ...
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Cryptic genetic diversity in Rattus of the San Francisco Bay region, California
Invasive species can have complex invasion histories, harbor cryptic levels of diversity, and pose taxonomic problems for pest management authorities. Roof rats, Rattus rattus sensu lato, are common invasive pest...
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Open AccessAdaptive molecular evolution of the Major Histocompatibility Complex genes, DRA and DQA, in the genus Equus
Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) genes are central to vertebrate immune response and are believed to be under balancing selection by pathogens. This hypothesis has been supported by observations of extre...
