Mosquito community composition shapes virus prevalence patterns along anthropogenic disturbance gradients
K. Hermanns, M. Marklewitz, F. Zirkel, A. Kopp, S. Kramer-Schadt, S. Junglen
The paper examines how mosquito community composition influences virus prevalence along disturbance gradients, finding that increased host abundance, not infection rates, drives virus emergence in disturbed habitats.
bioRxiv · Feb 4, 2021Ecology