Small subunit ribosomal metabarcoding reveals extraordinary trypanosomatid diversity in Brazilian bats.

• Main Authors: Maria Augusta Dario (Author), Ricardo Moratelli (Author), Philipp Schwabl (Author), Ana Maria Jansen (Author), Martin S Llewellyn (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Bats are a highly successful, globally dispersed order of mammals that occupy a wide array of ecological niches. They are also intensely parasitized and implicated in multiple viral, bacterial and parasitic zoonoses. Trypanosomes are thought to be especially abundant and diverse in bats. In this stu...