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Host dispersal shapes the population structure of a tick‐borne bacterial pathogen |
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| Author: | Norte, Ana Cláudia1,2; Margos, Gabriele3; Becker, Noémie S.4; |
| Organizations: |
1MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal 2Center for Vector and Infectious Diseases Research, National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal 3German National Reference Centre for Borrelia (NRZ), Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (LGL), Oberschleissheim, Germany
4Division of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, LMU Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
5Department of Zoology, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic 6Hellenic Bird Ringing Center, Athens, Greece 7Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva (ICBiBE), Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain 8Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 9School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom 10Ócsa Bird Ringing Station, Ócsa, Hungary 11epartment of Anatomy, Cell and Developmental Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 12Laboratory of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 13Behavioural Ecology, Department of Biology, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany 14CNRS – Department of Biometry and Evolutionary Biology (LBBE) – University Lyon 1, University of Lyon, Villeurbanne, France 15Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland 16Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland 17Department of Parasitology and Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest, Hungary 18Evolutionary Physiology Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany 19Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA 20Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium 21Forest Research Institute, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “DEMETER”, Thesaloniki, Greece 22Hungarian Biodiversity Research Society, Budapest, Hungary 23Czech Union for Nature Conservation, Břeclav, Czech Republic 24Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Brno, Czech Republic 25Department of Zoology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia 26Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 27Department of Biology, Molecular Ecology and Evolution Lab, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden 28Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 29Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain 30Department of Life Sciences, CFE – Centre for Functional Ecology – Science for People & the Planet, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal 31CIBIO‐InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal 32National Institute of Public Health and Environment (RIVM), Laboratory for Zoonoses and Environmental Microbiology, Bilthoven, The Netherlands 33Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 34Behavioural Ecology Group, Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 35Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia 36Museum of the Moravian Wallachia Region, Vsetín, Czech Republic 37Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO‐KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands |
| Format: | article |
| Version: | accepted version |
| Access: | open |
| Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 1.9 MB) |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2020040310237 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
John Wiley & Sons,
2020
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| Publish Date: | 2020-12-17 |
| Description: |
AbstractBirds are hosts for several zoonotic pathogens. Because of their high mobility, especially of longdistance migrants, birds can disperse these pathogens, affecting their distribution and phylogeography. We focused on Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, which includes the causative agents of Lyme borreliosis, as an example for tick‐borne pathogens, to address the role of birds as propagation hosts of zoonotic agents at a large geographical scale. We collected ticks from passerine birds in 11 European countries. B. burgdorferi s.l. prevalence in Ixodes spp. was 37% and increased with latitude. The fieldfare Turdus pilaris and the blackbird T. merula carried ticks with the highest Borrelia prevalence (92 and 58%, respectively), whereas robin Erithacus rubecula ticks were the least infected (3.8%). Borrelia garinii was the most prevalent genospecies (61%), followed by B. valaisiana (24%), B. afzelii (9%), B. turdi (5%) and B. lusitaniae (0.5%). A novel Borrelia genospecies “Candidatus Borrelia aligera” was also detected. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) analysis of B. garinii isolates together with the global collection of B. garinii genotypes obtained from the Borrelia MLST public database revealed that: (a) there was little overlap among genotypes from different continents, (b) there was no geographical structuring within Europe, and (c) there was no evident association pattern detectable among B. garinii genotypes from ticks feeding on birds, questing ticks or human isolates. These findings strengthen the hypothesis that the population structure and evolutionary biology of tick‐borne pathogens are shaped by their host associations and the movement patterns of these hosts. see all
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| Series: |
Molecular ecology |
| ISSN: | 0962-1083 |
| ISSN-E: | 1365-294X |
| ISSN-L: | 0962-1083 |
| Volume: | 29 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pages: | 485 - 501 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/mec.15336 |
| OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1111/mec.15336 |
| Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
| Field of Science: |
1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology |
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| Funding: |
This study received financial support from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia by the strategic program of MARE (MARE ‐ UID/MAR/04292/2013) and the fellowship to Ana Cláudia Norte (SFRH/BPD/108197/2015), and the Portuguese National Institute of Health. Raivo Mänd, Tomi Trilar, Tapio Eeva, Tomas Grim and Dieter Heylen were supported by the Estonian Research Council (research grant # IUT34‐8), the Slovenian Research Agency ‐programme “Communities, relations and communications in the ecosystems” (No. P1‐0255), the Academy of Finland (project 265859), the Internal Grant Agency of Palacky University (PrF_2014_018, PrF_2015_018, PrF_2013_018) and the Marie Sklodowska‐Curie Actions (EU‐Horizon 2020, Individual Global Fellowship, project no 799609), respectively. All applicable institutional and/or national guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed in this study. |
| Copyright information: |
© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Norte, AC, Margos, G, Becker, NS, et al. Host dispersal shapes the population structure of a tick‐borne bacterial pathogen. Mol Ecol. 2020; 29: 485– 501, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15336. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |