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Pinotti JD, Martin ML, Chiappero MB, Andreo V, González-Ittig RE. Combining phylogeography and ecological niche modeling to infer the evolutionary history of the Cordoba vesper mouse (Calomys venustus). Integr Zool 2024. [PMID: 38287190 DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2024]
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The evolutionary dynamics of the ecoregions of southern South America and the species that inhabit them have been poorly studied, and few biogeographic hypotheses have been proposed and tested. Quaternary climatic oscillations are among the most important processes that have led to the current distribution of genetic variation in different regions of the world. In this work, we studied the evolutionary history and distribution of the Córdoba vesper mouse (Calomys venustus), a characteristic rodent of the region of which little is known about its natural history. Since the population dynamics of this species are influenced by climatic factors, this rodent is a suitable model to study the effects of Quaternary climatic oscillations in central Argentina. The mitochondrial cytochrome b gene was sequenced to analyze the phylogeography of C. venustus, and ecological niche modeling tools were used to map its potential distributions. The results of these approaches were combined to provide additional spatially explicit information about this species' past. Our results suggest that the Espinal was the area of origin of this species, which expanded demographically and spatially during the last glacial period. A close relationship was found between the Espinal and the Mountain Chaco. These results are consistent with previous studies and emphasize the role of the Espinal in the biogeographic history of southern South America as an area of origin of several species.
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- Juan Diego Pinotti
- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA), CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
- Instituto de Altos Estudios Espaciales "Mario Gulich" (UNC-CONAE), Falda del Cañete, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas Dr. Julio I. Maiztegui, Pergamino, Argentina
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA), CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
- Cátedra de Genética de Poblaciones y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, UNC, Córdoba, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina
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- Instituto de Altos Estudios Espaciales "Mario Gulich" (UNC-CONAE), Falda del Cañete, Córdoba, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA), CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
- Cátedra de Genética de Poblaciones y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, UNC, Córdoba, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina
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Long-Tailed Pygmy Rice Rats Modify Their Behavioural Response and Faecal Corticosterone Metabolites in Response to Culpeo Fox but Not to Lesser Grison. Animals (Basel) 2021; 11:ani11113036. [PMID: 34827769 PMCID: PMC8614544 DOI: 10.3390/ani11113036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2021] [Revised: 10/19/2021] [Accepted: 10/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Simple Summary Prey species must fine-tune their antipredator responses to survive, but also to achieve a positive net energy balance which will enhance biological fitness. Given this, we investigated if Oligoryzomys longicaudatus would adapt their behavioural and physiological antipredator responses depending on their relative presence in the predator’s diet. By exposing this rodent species to culpeo fox and lesser grison faeces, we found that O. longicaudatus behavioural and physiological strategies were modulated depending on the predator’s diet. Specifically, rodents would trigger their antipredator responses in the presence of the most dangerous predator, the culpeo, which consumes a higher proportion of O. longicaudatus compared to the lesser grison. Our findings could be of importance for the development of more humane and efficient strategies to control rodent populations. Abstract Even though behavioural and physiological reactions to predation risk exhibited by prey species have received considerable attention in scientific journals, there are still many questions still unsolved. Our aim was to broaden the knowledge on one specific question: do long-tailed pygmy rice rats adapt their behavioural and physiological antipredator strategies depending on the predator species? For this question, we live-trapped in a temperate forest in Southern Chile long-tailed pygmy rice rats (Oligoryzomys longicaudatus), which were exposed to three predator odour phases (Phase 0: preliminary, no predator cues; Phase 1: one plot with culpeo fox faeces (Lycalopex culpaeus), one plot with lesser grison (Galictis cuja) faeces and one plot acting as a control with no odour; Phase 2: post treatment, no predator cues). We measured the behavioural response by the capture ratio. To assess the physiological stress response, we collected fresh faecal samples to quantify faecal corticosterone metabolites (FCM). Our results showed that O. longicaudatus increased both the capture ratio and FCM levels in the presence of culpeo cues. Culpeo foxes have higher densities in the study area than G. cuja and exhibit a higher activity pattern overlap with O. longicaudatus. Moreover, it has been also been reported in other regions that L. culpaeus consumption of O. longicaudatus is more frequent compared to G. cuja diet. The increase in capturability could be because traps can be regarded as a shelter in high-risk settings, but it can also be explained by the predator inspection behaviour. The increase in FCM concentrations during culpeo treatment can be linked to the adaptive mobilisation of energy to execute antipredator responses to increase survival chances.
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Pinotti JD, Ferreiro AM, Martin ML, Levis S, Chiappero M, Andreo V, González‐Ittig RE. Multiple refugia and glacial expansions in the Tucumane–Bolivian Yungas: The phylogeography and potential distribution modeling of Calomys fecundus(Thomas, 1926) (Rodentia: Cricetidae). J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- Juan Diego Pinotti
- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA) CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Córdoba Argentina
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA) CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Córdoba Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas Dr. Julio I. Maiztegui Pergamino Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas Dr. Julio I. Maiztegui Pergamino Argentina
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA) CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Córdoba Argentina
- Cátedra de Genética de Poblaciones y Evolución Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales UNC Córdoba Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Medicina Tropical CONICET Puerto Iguazú Argentina
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA) CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Córdoba Argentina
- Cátedra de Genética de Poblaciones y Evolución Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales UNC Córdoba Argentina
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Rivera PC, González-Ittig RE, Robainas Barcia A, Trimarchi LI, Levis S, Calderón GE, Gardenal CN. Molecular phylogenetics and environmental niche modeling reveal a cryptic species in the Oligoryzomys flavescens complex (Rodentia, Cricetidae). J Mammal 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyx186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Paula C Rivera
- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (CONICET-UNC), Av. Vélez Sársfield, Córdoba, Argentina
- Universidad Nacional de Chilecito, Chilecito, Argentina
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (CONICET-UNC), Av. Vélez Sársfield, Córdoba, Argentina
- Cátedra de Genética de Poblaciones y Evolución, FCEFyN, UNC, Av. Vélez Sársfield, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (CONICET-UNC), Av. Vélez Sársfield, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas Dr Julio I. Maiztegui, Diagnostic and Research, Monteagudo, Pergamino, Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas Dr Julio I. Maiztegui, Diagnostic and Research, Monteagudo, Pergamino, Argentina
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (CONICET-UNC), Av. Vélez Sársfield, Córdoba, Argentina
- Cátedra de Genética de Poblaciones y Evolución, FCEFyN, UNC, Av. Vélez Sársfield, Córdoba, Argentina
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Impact of tree priors in species delimitation and phylogenetics of the genus Oligoryzomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2018; 119:1-12. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.10.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2016] [Revised: 09/23/2017] [Accepted: 10/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Weksler M, Lemos EM, D'Andrea PS, Bonvicino CR. The Taxonomic Status ofOligoryzomys mattogrossae(Allen 1916) (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae), Reservoir of Anajatuba Hantavirus. AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES 2017. [DOI: 10.1206/3880.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Marcelo Weksler
- Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Vertebrados, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- FIOCRUZ, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Eco-Epidemiologia de Doença de Chagas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- FIOCRUZ, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Hantavirose e Rickttioses, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- FIOCRUZ, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Biologia e Parasitologia de Mamíferos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- FIOCRUZ, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Biologia e Parasitologia de Mamíferos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Genetics Division, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Gryseels S, Baird SJE, Borremans B, Makundi R, Leirs H, Goüy de Bellocq J. When Viruses Don't Go Viral: The Importance of Host Phylogeographic Structure in the Spatial Spread of Arenaviruses. PLoS Pathog 2017; 13:e1006073. [PMID: 28076397 PMCID: PMC5226678 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2016] [Accepted: 11/17/2016] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Many emerging infections are RNA virus spillovers from animal reservoirs. Reservoir identification is necessary for predicting the geographic extent of infection risk, but rarely are taxonomic levels below the animal species considered as reservoir, and only key circumstances in nature and methodology allow intrinsic virus-host associations to be distinguished from simple geographic (co-)isolation. We sampled and genetically characterized in detail a contact zone of two subtaxa of the rodent Mastomys natalensis in Tanzania. We find two distinct arenaviruses, Gairo and Morogoro virus, each spatially confined to a single M. natalensis subtaxon, only co-occurring at the contact zone’s centre. Inter-subtaxon hybridization at this centre and a continuum of quality habitat for M. natalensis show that both viruses have the ecological opportunity to spread into the other substaxon’s range, but do not, strongly suggesting host-intrinsic barriers. Such barriers could explain why human cases of another M. natalensis-borne arenavirus, Lassa virus, are limited to West Africa. Reservoirs of zoonotic viruses are usually equated with a particular wildlife species. It is rarely assessed whether genetic groups below the species level may instead represent the actual reservoir, though this would have major implications on estimations of the zoonosis’ spatial distribution. Here we investigate whether geographically and genetically distinct subtaxa of the widespread African rodent Mastomys natalensis carry distinct arenaviruses, by sampling in detail across a contact zone of two of these subtaxa. Ongoing hybridization shows that individuals of the subtaxa are in direct physical contact, in principle allowing viral exchange, yet neither of the two arenaviruses -Gairo and Morogoro virus- were found to have crossed the zone. Such intraspecific genetic barriers to arenavirus spatial spread have important implications for our understanding of the related Lassa arenavirus, a pathogen potentially lethal to humans of which Mastomys natalensis is also the main reservoir. Although Lassa virus appears to infect several secondary hosts, its distribution is restricted to West Africa and matches that of another M. natalensis subtaxon. Our data thus indicates that it is because of M. natalensis intraspecific distinctions that the human Lassa fever endemic area has not expanded to the rest of sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Sophie Gryseels
- Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Research Facility Studenec, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Pest Management Centre, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
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- Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Research Facility Studenec, Brno, Czech Republic
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Rivera PC, González-Ittig RE, Gardenal CN. Preferential host switching and its relation with Hantavirus diversification in South America. J Gen Virol 2015; 96:2531-2542. [DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.000210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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- Paula C. Rivera
- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (CONICET-UNC) and Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, Av. Vélez Sarsfield 299, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (CONICET-UNC) and Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, Av. Vélez Sarsfield 299, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (CONICET-UNC) and Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, Av. Vélez Sarsfield 299, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
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González-Ittig RE, Kandel N, Levis S, Calderón G, Salazar-Bravo J, Gardenal CN. Molecular systematics of the South American rodent Calomys laucha (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae), a reservoir of the Laguna Negra hantavirus. CAN J ZOOL 2014. [DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2014-0133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The small vesper mouse (Calomys laucha (Fischer, 1814)) (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) ranges widely in Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, and Bolivia. The species is the reservoir of the Laguna Negra hantavirus (LNV) in Paraguay but not in Argentina, where it is one of the most abundant rodents in agro-pastoral ecosystems. To answer the question if the nominal species C. laucha constitutes a single genetic unit or if it presents genetic discontinuities that may relate to hosting LNV, we sequenced the cytochrome b (cyt b) gene of specimens from throughout the range of the distribution of the species. Phylogenetic analyses revealed two well-supported clades. Twenty-two sequences from Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia grouped in clade A, but three sequences from Uruguay and Brazil clustered in a quite divergent clade B. The genetic distance between the two groups is 5.75%. No significant differences between Argentinean, Paraguayan, and Bolivian specimens assigned to C. laucha were detected. The restricted distribution of LNV associated to C. laucha in central Paraguay could be explained by a “natural nidality” phenomenon.
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- Raúl E. González-Ittig
- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (CONICET-UNC), Avenida Vélez Sarsfield 299, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina; Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Argentina
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3131, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Humanas (INEVH), Pergamino, Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Humanas (INEVH), Pergamino, Argentina
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3131, USA
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (CONICET-UNC), Avenida Vélez Sarsfield 299, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina; Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Argentina
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González-Ittig RE, Rivera PC, Levis SC, Calderón GE, Gardenal CN. The molecular phylogenetics of the genusOligoryzomys(Rodentia: Cricetidae) clarifies rodent host-hantavirus associations. Zool J Linn Soc 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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- Raul E. González-Ittig
- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (CONICET-UNC); Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales; Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Córdoba Argentina
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (CONICET-UNC); Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales; Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Córdoba Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas (INEVH); Pergamino Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas (INEVH); Pergamino Argentina
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (CONICET-UNC); Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales; Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Córdoba Argentina
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Hantavirus reservoirs: current status with an emphasis on data from Brazil. Viruses 2014; 6:1929-73. [PMID: 24784571 PMCID: PMC4036540 DOI: 10.3390/v6051929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2013] [Revised: 02/03/2014] [Accepted: 02/07/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
Since the recognition of hantavirus as the agent responsible for haemorrhagic fever in Eurasia in the 1970s and, 20 years later, the descovery of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the Americas, the genus Hantavirus has been continually described throughout the World in a variety of wild animals. The diversity of wild animals infected with hantaviruses has only recently come into focus as a result of expanded wildlife studies. The known reservoirs are more than 80, belonging to 51 species of rodents, 7 bats (order Chiroptera) and 20 shrews and moles (order Soricomorpha). More than 80genetically related viruses have been classified within Hantavirus genus; 25 recognized as human pathogens responsible for a large spectrum of diseases in the Old and New World. In Brazil, where the diversity of mammals and especially rodents is considered one of the largest in the world, 9 hantavirus genotypes have been identified in 12 rodent species belonging to the genus Akodon, Calomys, Holochilus, Oligoryzomys, Oxymycterus, Necromys and Rattus. Considering the increasing number of animals that have been implicated as reservoirs of different hantaviruses, the understanding of this diversity is important for evaluating the risk of distinct hantavirus species as human pathogens.
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