Publication Date:
2006-01-28
Description:
Directly transmitted parasites often provide substantial information about the temporal and spatial characteristics of host-to-host contact. Here, we demonstrate that a fast-evolving virus (feline immunodeficiency virus, FIV) can reveal details of the contemporary population structure and recent demographic history of its natural wildlife host (Puma concolor) that were not apparent from host genetic data and would be impossible to obtain by other means. We suggest that rapidly evolving pathogens may provide a complementary tool for studying population dynamics of their hosts in "shallow" time.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Biek, Roman -- Drummond, Alexei J -- Poss, Mary -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Jan 27;311(5760):538-41.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA. rbiek@emory.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16439664" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alberta/epidemiology
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Animals
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Bayes Theorem
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British Columbia/epidemiology
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Ecosystem
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*Evolution, Molecular
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Genes, env
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Genes, pol
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Geography
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Immunodeficiency Virus, Feline/*classification/*genetics
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Lentivirus Infections/epidemiology/*veterinary/virology
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Microsatellite Repeats
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Montana/epidemiology
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Phylogeny
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Population Dynamics
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*Puma/genetics/virology
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Time Factors
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Wyoming/epidemiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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