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SUBMITTER: Roy-Dufresne E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3832455 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Roy-Dufresne Emilie E Logan Travis T Simon Julie A JA Chmura Gail L GL Millien Virginie V
PloS one 20131118 11
The white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) is an important reservoir host for Borrelia burgdorferi, the pathogen responsible for Lyme disease, and its distribution is expanding northward. We used an Ecological Niche Factor Analysis to identify the climatic factors associated with the distribution shift of the white-footed mouse over the last 30 years at the northern edge of its range, and modeled its current and potential future (2050) distributions using the platform BIOMOD. A mild and shorte ...[more]