Infanticide by Adult Females Causes Sexual Conflict in a Female-Dominated Social Mammal

Autor: Marion L. East, Dagmar Thierer, Sarah Benhaiem, Sonja Metzger, Heribert Hofer

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Vol 10 (2022)

Infanticide by adult females includes any substantial contribution to the demise of young and inevitably imposes fitness costs on the victim’s genetic fathers, thereby generating sexual conflict with them. Few if any studies have quantified the imp

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No Evidence of Gouléako and Herbert Virus Infections in Pigs, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana

Autor: Sandra Junglen, Marco Marklewitz, Florian Zirkel, Robert Wollny, Benjamin Meyer, Hanna Heidemann, Sonja Metzger, Augustina Annan, Dickson Dei, Fabian H. Leendertz, Samuel Oppong, Sung Sup Park

Publikováno v: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 21, Iss 12, Pp 2190-2193 (2015)

A recent report suggested that 2 novel bunyaviruses discovered in insects in Côte d’Ivoire caused lethal disease in swine in South Korea. We conducted cell culture studies and tested serum from pigs exposed to mosquitoes in Côte d’Ivoire and Gh

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Novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Isolate from a Wild Chimpanzee

Autor: Mireia Coscolla, Astrid Lewin, Sonja Metzger, Kerstin Maetz-Rennsing, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer, Andreas Nitsche, Pjotr Wojtek Dabrowski, Aleksandar Radonic, Stefan Niemann, Julian Parkhill, Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann, Julia Feldman, Iñaki Comas, Christophe Boesch, Sebastien Gagneux, Fabian H. Leendertz

Publikováno v: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 19, Iss 6, Pp 969-976 (2013)

Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by gram-positive bacteria known as the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). MTBC include several human-associated lineages and several variants adapted to domestic and, more rarely, wild animal species. We report an

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Wild Chimpanzees Infected with 5 Plasmodium Species

Autor: Marco Kaiser, Anna Löwa, Markus Ulrich, Heinz Ellerbrok, Adeelia S. Goffe, Anja Blasse, Zinta Zommers, Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann, Fred Babweteera, Klaus Zuberbühler, Sonja Metzger, Sebastian Geidel, Christophe Boesch, Thomas R. Gillespie, Fabian H. Leendertz

Publikováno v: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 16, Iss 12, Pp 1956-1959 (2010)

Data are missing on the diversity of Plasmodium spp. infecting apes that live in their natural habitat, with limited possibility of human-mosquito-ape exchange. We surveyed Plasmodium spp. diversity in wild chimpanzees living in an undisturbed tropic

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Leprosy in wild chimpanzees

Autor: Joshua Lynton-Jenkins, Philippe Busso, Charlotte Avanzi, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer, Markus Ulrich, Jenny E. Jaffe, Ariane Düx, Kimberley J. Hockings, Moussa Gado, Verena J. Schuenemann, Benjamin Mubemba, Sonja Metzger, Marina Ramon, Elena Bersacola, Samba O. Sow, Andrej Benjak, Sebastien Gagneux, Livia V. Patrono, Abílio R. Said, Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann, Irina Morozova, Fabian H. Leendertz, Kamilla Pléh, Stewart T. Cole, Hyacinthe Zoubi, Kerstin Mätz-Rensing, Roch Christian Johnson, Joana Bessa, Roman M. Wittig, Camille Bonneaud, John S. Spencer, Aissa Regalla, Mamoudou Kodio

Publikováno v: Nature
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Humans are considered as the main host for Mycobacterium leprae1, the aetiological agent of leprosy, but spillover has occurred to other mammals that are now maintenance hosts, such as nine-banded armadillos and red squirrels2,3. Although naturally a

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