Invasive Burmese pythons alter host use and virus infection in the vector of a zoonotic virus

Burkett-Cadena et al. use a combination of field survey methods, citizen science data, and molecular analysis to determine how the invasive Burmese python distribution affects mammal host use and virus infection by vector mosquitoes. This study shows how python predation has shifted vector host use...

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Main Authors: Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena, Erik M. Blosser, Anne A. Loggins, Monica C. Valente, Maureen T. Long, Lindsay P. Campbell, Lawrence E. Reeves, Irka Bargielowski, Robert A. McCleery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02347-z