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ArticleTransboundary and emerging diseases2023

Epidemiology of a Hybrid Swarm: Evidence of 11 Feline Infectious Agents Circulating in a Population of Sympatric European Wildcat Hybrids and Free-Living Domestic Cats, in Scotland.

Beatriz S G Alves, Alice Bacon, Keri Langridge, Kostas Papasouliotis, Ian Handel, Neil E Anderson, Anna L Meredith

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Article in Transboundary and emerging diseases, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Molecular Survey and Genetic Characterization ofAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Beatriz S G AlvesThe Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (R(D)SVS) and The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian, Edinburgh EH25 9RG, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8671-0262
Alice BaconThe Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (R(D)SVS) and The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian, Edinburgh EH25 9RG, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0803-0078
Keri LangridgeSaving Wildcats, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Conservation Department, Highland Wildlife Park, Kincraig, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7977-0768
Kostas PapasouliotisLangford Vets-Bristol Veterinary School, University of Bristol, Langford House Langford, Bristol BS40 5DU, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7795-2371
Ian HandelThe Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (R(D)SVS) and The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian, Edinburgh EH25 9RG, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6407-4963
Neil E AndersonThe Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (R(D)SVS) and The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian, Edinburgh EH25 9RG, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7192-7717
Anna L MeredithThe Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (R(D)SVS) and The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian, Edinburgh EH25 9RG, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3965-8737

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hybridisation between wild and domestic species poses a serious challenge to conservation management and can, potentially, lead to extinction. Alongside it, disease transmission will inevitably occur. However, the link between these two phenomena has historically been neglected. In Scotland, the European wildcat is particularly threatened by hybridisation with the domestic cat, a process promoted by long-term habitat loss, human encroachment, and persecution. Between 2015 and 2019, free-living cats (

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Bacterial InfectionsCat DiseasesHybridization, GeneticVirus DiseasesAnimalsAnimals, WildCatsFemaleMaleScotland

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PMID40303808
PMCPMC12017057

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