Evolutionary BiologyPLoS PathogensPeer-reviewed
Parasite contingency loci and the evolution of host specificity: Simple sequence repeats mediate Bartonella adaptation to a wild rodent host
Ruth Rodríguez‐Pastor, Nadav Knossow, Naama Shahar…·Hadas Hawlena
This study shows that simple sequence repeats in Bartonella bacteria drive adaptation to specific rodent hosts through frameshift mutations in adhesin genes.