Host dispersal shapes the population structure of a tick‐borne bacterial pathogen

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00098574%3A_____%2F19%3AN0000006" target="_blank" >RIV/00098574:_____/19:N0000006 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14110/20:00116157 RIV/61989592:15310/20:73604317 RIV/62157124:16270/20:43878733

Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.15336" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.15336</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.15336" target="_blank" >10.1111/mec.15336</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Host dispersal shapes the population structure of a tick‐borne bacterial pathogen

Original language description

Birds 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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10615 - Ornithology

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Molecular Ecology

ISSN

0962-1083

e-ISSN

1365-294X

Volume of the periodical

29

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

485-501

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85077883737