Demographic and environmental drivers of metagenomic viral diversity in vampire bats

dc.contributor.authorBergner, L.
dc.contributor.authorOrton, R.
dc.contributor.authorBenavides, J.
dc.contributor.authorBecker, D.
dc.contributor.authorTello, C.
dc.contributor.authorBiek, R.
dc.contributor.authorStreicker, D.
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-18T14:28:51Z
dc.date.available2021-10-18T14:28:51Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionIndexación: Scopus.es
dc.description.abstractViruses infect all forms of life and play critical roles as agents of disease, drivers of biochemical cycles and sources of genetic diversity for their hosts. Our understanding of viral diversity derives primarily from comparisons among host species, precluding insight into how intraspecific variation in host ecology affects viral communities or how predictable viral communities are across populations. Here we test spatial, demographic and environmental hypotheses explaining viral richness and community composition across populations of common vampire bats, which occur in diverse habitats of North, Central and South America. We demonstrate marked variation in viral communities that was not consistently predicted by a null model of declining community similarity with increasing spatial or genetic distances separating populations. We also find no evidence that larger bat colonies host greater viral diversity. Instead, viral diversity follows an elevational gradient, is enriched by juvenile-biased age structure, and declines with local anthropogenic food resources as measured by livestock density. Our results establish the value of linking the modern influx of metagenomic sequence data with comparative ecology, reveal that snapshot views of viral diversity are unlikely to be representative at the species level, and affirm existing ecological theories that link host ecology not only to single pathogen dynamics but also to viral communities.es
dc.description.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.15250
dc.identifier.citationMolecular Ecology, Volume 29, Issue 1, Pages 26 - 391, January 2020es
dc.identifier.doiDOI: 10.1111/mec.15250
dc.identifier.issn0962-1083
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorio.unab.cl/xmlui/handle/ria/20488
dc.language.isoenes
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltdes
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.subjectChiropteraes
dc.subjectcommunity assemblyes
dc.subjectdemographyes
dc.subjectDesmodus rotunduses
dc.subjectelevational gradientes
dc.subjectinfectious diseaseses
dc.subjectpopulation structurees
dc.subjectshotgun metagenomicses
dc.subjectviromees
dc.subjectwildlife diseasees
dc.titleDemographic and environmental drivers of metagenomic viral diversity in vampire batses
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