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DOI | 10.1038/s41559-022-01723-0 |
Urban-adapted mammal species have more known pathogens | |
Albery G.F.; Carlson C.J.; Cohen L.E.; Eskew E.A.; Gibb R.; Ryan S.J.; Sweeny A.R.; Becker D.J. | |
发表日期 | 2022 |
ISSN | 2397-334X |
英文摘要 | The world is rapidly urbanizing, inviting mounting concern that urban environments will experience increased zoonotic disease risk. Urban animals could have more frequent contact with humans, therefore transmitting more zoonotic parasites; however, this relationship is complicated by sampling bias and phenotypic confounders. Here we test whether urban mammal species host more zoonotic parasites, investigating the underlying drivers alongside a suite of phenotypic, taxonomic and geographic predictors. We found that urban-adapted mammals have more documented parasites and more zoonotic parasites: despite comprising only 6% of investigated species, urban mammals provided 39% of known host–parasite combinations. However, contrary to predictions, much of the observed effect was attributable to parasite discovery and research effort rather than to urban adaptation status, and urban-adapted species in fact hosted fewer zoonotic parasites than expected on the basis of their total parasite richness. We conclude that extended historical contact with humans has had a limited impact on zoonotic parasite richness in urban-adapted mammals; instead, their greater observed zoonotic richness probably reflects sampling bias arising from proximity to humans, supporting a near-universal conflation between zoonotic risk, research effort and synanthropy. These findings underscore the need to resolve the mechanisms linking anthropogenic change, sampling bias and observed wildlife disease dynamics. ? 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. |
语种 | 英语 |
来源期刊 | Nature Ecology & Evolution |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/257185 |
作者单位 | Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States; Center for Global Health Science and Security, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States; Department of Biology, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA, United States; Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; Quantitative Disease Ecology and Conservation (QDEC) Lab Group, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States; Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States; School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa; University o... |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Albery G.F.,Carlson C.J.,Cohen L.E.,et al. Urban-adapted mammal species have more known pathogens[J],2022. |
APA | Albery G.F..,Carlson C.J..,Cohen L.E..,Eskew E.A..,Gibb R..,...&Becker D.J..(2022).Urban-adapted mammal species have more known pathogens.Nature Ecology & Evolution. |
MLA | Albery G.F.,et al."Urban-adapted mammal species have more known pathogens".Nature Ecology & Evolution (2022). |
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