Ecological and evolutionary drivers of hemoplasma infection and bacterial genotype sharing in a Neotropical bat community
D. Becker, K. Speer, A. Brown, M. B. Fenton, A. Washburne, S. Altizer, D. Streicker, R. Plowright, V. Chizhikov, N. B. Simmons, D. Volokhov
The paper examines hemoplasma infection prevalence and genetic diversity in Neotropical bats, finding high host specificity and phylogenetic constraints on bacterial sharing.
bioRxiv · Dec 21, 2019Ecology