ArticleScientific reports2016
Assessing the feasibility of fly based surveillance of wildlife infectious diseases.
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- Analysing the effects of distance, taxon and biomass on vertebrate detections using bulk-collected carrion fly iDNA.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
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- Using haematophagous fly blood meals to study the diversity of blood-borne pathogens infecting wild mammals.Molecular ecology resources · 2022Article
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- A Review of Non-Invasive Sampling in Wildlife Disease and Health Research: What's New?Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
- Detecting Flavobacterial Fish Pathogens in the Environment via High-Throughput Community Analysis.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022Article
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- Blood meal analysis of tsetse flies (Wellcome open research · 2021Article
- Monkeypox virus emergence in wild chimpanzees reveals distinct clinical outcomes and viral diversity.Nature microbiology · 2020Article
- Female Blow Flies As Vertebrate Resource Indicators.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Incorporating genomic methods into contact networks to reveal new insights into animal behavior and infectious disease dynamics.Behaviour · 2018Article
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Abstract
Monitoring wildlife infectious agents requires acquiring samples suitable for analyses, which is often logistically demanding. A possible alternative to invasive or non-invasive sampling of wild-living vertebrates is the use of vertebrate material contained in invertebrates feeding on them, their feces, or their remains. Carrion flies have been shown to contain vertebrate DNA; here we investigate whether they might also be suitable for wildlife pathogen detection. We collected 498 flies in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, a tropical rainforest and examined them for adenoviruses (family Adenoviridae), whose DNA is frequently shed in feces of local mammals. Adenoviral DNA was detected in 6/142 mammal-positive flies. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that five of these sequences were closely related to sequences obtained from local non-human primates, while the sixth sequence was closely related to a murine adenovirus. Next-generation sequencing-based DNA-profiling of the meals of the respective flies identified putative hosts that were a good fit to those suggested by adenoviral sequence affinities. We conclude that, while characterizing the genetic diversity of wildlife infectious agents through fly-based monitoring may not be cost-efficient, this method could probably be used to detect the genetic material of wildlife infectious agents causing wildlife mass mortality in pristine areas.
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