Viral metacommunities associated to bats and rodents at different spatial scales.

ABSTRACT: One of the main goals of community ecology is to measure the relative importance of environmental filters to understand patterns of species distribution at different temporal and spatial scales. Likewise, the identification of factors that shape symbiont metacommunity structures is important in disease ecology because resulting structures drive disease transmission. We tested the hypothesis that distributions of virus species and viral families from rodents and bats are defined by shared responses to host phylogeny and host functional characteristics, shaping the viral metacommunity structures at four spatial scales (Continental, Biogeographical, Zoogeographical, and Regional). The contribution of host phylogeny and host traits to the metacommunity of viruses at each spatial scale was calc

SUBMITTER: Nieto-Rabiela F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7091747 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature