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Host-pathogen evolutionary signatures reveal dynamics and future invasions of vampire bat rabies [PDF]

, 2016
Anticipating how epidemics will spread across landscapes requires understanding host dispersal events that are notoriously difficult to measure. Here, we contrast host and virus genetic signatures to resolve the spatiotemporal dynamics underlying ...
Alice Broos, Andrés Velasco-Villa, Carlos Tello, Daniel G. Streicker, Dara A. Satterfield, Jamie C. Winternitz, Linhart, Moreno, Navarro, Quintana, Rene Edgar Condori-Condori, Sergio Recuenco, Sonia Altizer, Wilkinson, William Valderrama   +14 more
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A Preliminary Assessment of the Potential Health and Genetic Impacts of Releasing Confiscated Passerines Into the Wild: A Reduced-Risk Approach

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021
The illegal capture and trade of wild birds have long been threats to biodiversity. The rehabilitation and release of confiscated animals may be a useful conservation tool in species management.
Cláudio E. F. Cruz, Cláudio E. F. Cruz, Gustavo R. Funkler, Gustavo R. Funkler, André L. S. Zani, Paulo G. C. Wagner, Inês Andretta, Luciano N. Segura, Nelson J. R. Fagundes, Nelson J. R. Fagundes   +9 more
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Past hybridization between two East Asian long-tailed tits (Aegithalos bonvaloti and A. fuliginosus) [PDF]

, 2014
Introduction: Incomplete lineage sorting and hybridization are two major nonexclusive causes of haplotype sharing between species. Distinguishing between these two processes is notoriously difficult as they can generate similar genetic signatures ...
Alström, Per, Dai, Chuanyin, Lei, Fumin, Li, Shou-Hsien, Qu, Yanhua, Song, Gang, Wang, Wenjuan, Yang, Xiaojun, Zhang, Chunlan, Zhao, Na   +9 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Aquila nipalensis and its phylogenetic position

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019
Mitochondrial genome sequences are valuable resources for systematics and conservation biology studies. In this paper, we present the complete mitogenome of Aquila nipalensis which was 18,450 bp in length.
Chuang Zhou, Hongmei Tu, Yingzhu Chen, Liang Dou, Yang Meng, Nan Yang, Bisong Yue, Yongjie Wu   +7 more
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Landscape genetics of Schistocephalus solidus parasites in threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) from Alaska. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
The nature of gene flow in parasites with complex life cycles is poorly understood, particularly when intermediate and definitive hosts have contrasting movement potential.
C Grace Sprehn, Michael J Blum, Thomas P Quinn, David C Heins   +3 more
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Ancient DNA & stable isotope profiling of fossil eggshell [PDF]

, 2012
Eggshell is frequently encountered within palaeontological and archaeological deposits and due to various chemical and physical properties, it is highly valued as a substrate for geochronology, palaeodietary and palaeoecological applications. Despite the
Oskam, Charlotte
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Domination Versus Sisterhoods in the Blood Microbiota of Migrating Birds: Patterns of Within‐ and Between‐Individual Blood Parasite Diversity Revealed Through Metabarcoding

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Avian haemosporidian blood parasites are typically identified through Sanger sequencing of a partial cytochrome b fragment, the MalAvi barcoding region. Next‐generation sequencing is seldom used for avian blood parasite identification; this study demonstrates a higher detection rate of co‐infections via metabarcoding and its possible implications ...
Peter Pibaque, Gaia Porporato, Simone Cescutti, Alanis Cruz‐Flores, Tobias Busche, Anika Winker, Tim Maximilian Rapp, Patrick Bergkamp, Anna Doneva, Nayden Chakarov   +9 more
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Integrating coalescent species delimitation with analysis of host specificity reveals extensive cryptic diversity despite minimal mitochondrial divergence in the malaria parasite genus Leucocytozoon

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2018
Background Coalescent methods that use multi-locus sequence data are powerful tools for identifying putatively reproductively isolated lineages, though this approach has rarely been used for the study of microbial groups that are likely to harbor many ...
Spencer C. Galen, Renato Nunes, Paul R. Sweet, Susan L. Perkins   +3 more
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Bloodmeal analysis reveals avian Plasmodium infections and broad host preferences of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) vectors. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Changing environmental conditions and human encroachment on natural habitats bring human populations closer to novel sources of parasites, which might then develop into new emerging diseases. Diseases transmitted by host generalist vectors are of special
Diego Santiago-Alarcon, Peter Havelka, Hinrich Martin Schaefer, Gernot Segelbacher   +3 more
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Evolutionary analysis of the female-specific avian W chromosome [PDF]

, 2015
The typically repetitive nature of the sex-limited chromosome means that it is often excluded from or poorly covered in genome assemblies, hindering studies of evolutionary and population genomic processes in non-recombining chromosomes. Here, we present
Bolivar, Paulina, Bures, Stanislav, Burri, Reto, Ellegren, Hans, Garamszegi, Laszlo Z., Hogner, Silje, Moreno, Juan, Nater, Alexander, Qvarnström, Anna, Ruzic, Milan, Smeds, Linnea, Suh, Alexander, Sæther, Stein Are, Sætre, Glenn-Peter, Torok, Janos, Uebbing, Severin, Warmuth, Vera   +16 more
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