Parasite contingency loci and the evolution of host specificity: Simple sequence repeats mediateBartonellaadaptation to a wild rodent host
Ruth Rodríguez-Pastor,
Nadav Knossow,
Naama Shahar
et al.
Abstract:Parasites can adapt to better exploit their hosts on many timescales, ranging from within a single infection to across serial infections of multiple hosts. However, little is known about how the genomes of parasites in natural communities evolve when they face diverse hosts. We investigated how Bartonella bacteria that circulate in rodent communities in the dunes of the Negev Desert in Israel adapt to different hosts. We propagated 15 Bartonella populations through infections of either a single rodent species … Show more
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