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SUBMITTER: Gomez-Chamorro A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6491475 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gomez-Chamorro Andrea A Battilotti Florian F Cayol Claire C Mappes Tapio T Koskela Esa E Boulanger Nathalie N Genné Dolores D Sarr Anouk A Voordouw Maarten Jeroen MJ
Scientific reports 20190430 1
The study of polymorphic immune genes in host populations is critical for understanding genetic variation in susceptibility to pathogens. Controlled infection experiments are necessary to separate variation in the probability of exposure from genetic variation in susceptibility to infection, but such experiments are rare for wild vertebrate reservoir hosts and their zoonotic pathogens. The bank vole (Myodes glareolus) is an important reservoir host of Borrelia afzelii, a tick-borne spirochete th ...[more]