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SUBMITTER: McNally L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4143932 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McNally Luke L Viana Mafalda M Brown Sam P SP
Nature communications 20140805
The majority of emergent human pathogens are zoonotic in origin, that is, they can transmit to humans from other animals. Understanding the factors underlying the evolution of pathogen host range is therefore of critical importance in protecting human health. There are two main evolutionary routes to generalism: organisms can tolerate multiple environments or they can modify their environments to forms to which they are adapted. Here we use a combination of theory and a phylogenetic comparative ...[more]