Host dispersal shapes the population structure of a tick-borne bacterial pathogen

Ana Claudia Norte; Gabriele Margos; Noemie S. Becker; Jaime Albino Ramos; Maria Sofia Nuncio; Volker Fingerle; Pedro Miguel Araujo; Peter Adamik; Haralambos Alivizatos; Emilio Barba; Rafael Barrientos; Laure Cauchard; Tibor Csorgo; Anastasia Diakou; Niels J. Dingemanse; Blandine Doligez; Anna Dubiec; Tapio Eeva; Barbara Flaisz; Tomas Grim; Michaela Hau; Dieter Heylen; Sandor Hornok; Savas Kazantzidis; David Kovats; Frantisek Krause; Ivan Literak; Raivo Mand; Lucia Mentesana; Jennifer Morinay; Marko Mutanen; Julio Manuel Neto; Marketa Novakova; Juan Jose Sanz; Luis Pascoal da Silva; Hein Sprong; Ina-Sabrina Tirri; Janos Torok; Tomi Trilar; Zdenek Tyller; Marcel E. Visser; Isabel Lopes de Carvalho

doi:10.1111/mec.15336

Host dispersal shapes the population structure of a tick-borne bacterial pathogen

Ana Claudia Norte, Gabriele Margos, Noemie S. Becker, Jaime Albino Ramos, Maria Sofia Nuncio, Volker Fingerle, Pedro Miguel Araujo, Peter Adamik, Haralambos Alivizatos, Emilio Barba, Rafael Barrientos, Laure Cauchard, Tibor Csorgo, Anastasia Diakou, Niels J. Dingemanse, Blandine Doligez, Anna Dubiec, Tapio Eeva, Barbara Flaisz, Tomas GrimMichaela Hau, Dieter Heylen, Sandor Hornok, Savas Kazantzidis, David Kovats, Frantisek Krause, Ivan Literak, Raivo Mand, Lucia Mentesana, Jennifer Morinay, Marko Mutanen, Julio Manuel Neto, Marketa Novakova, Juan Jose Sanz, Luis Pascoal da Silva, Hein Sprong, Ina-Sabrina Tirri, Janos Torok, Tomi Trilar, Zdenek Tyller, Marcel E. Visser, Isabel Lopes de Carvalho (Corresponding author)

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Abstract

Birds are hosts for several zoonotic pathogens. Because of their high mobility, especially of longdistance migrants, birds can disperse these pathogens, affecting their distribution and phylogeography. We focused on Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, which includes the causative agents of Lyme borreliosis, as an example for tick‐borne pathogens, to address the role of birds as propagation hosts of zoonotic agents at a large geographical scale. We collected ticks from passerine birds in 11 European countries. B . burgdorferi s.l. prevalence in Ixodes spp. was 37% and increased with latitude. The fieldfare Turdus pilaris and the blackbird T. merula carried ticks with the highest Borrelia prevalence (92 and 58%, respectively), whereas robin Erithacus rubecula ticks were the least infected (3.8%). Borrelia garinii was the most prevalent genospecies (61%), followed by B. valaisiana (24%), B. afzelii (9%), B. turdi (5%) and B. lusitaniae (0.5%). A novel Borrelia genospecies “Candidatus Borrelia aligera” was also detected. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST ) analysis of B. garinii isolates together with the global collection of B. garinii genotypes obtained from the Borrelia MLST public database revealed that: (a) there was little overlap among genotypes from different continents, (b) there was no geographical structuring within Europe, and (c) there was no evident association pattern detectable among B. garinii genotypes from ticks feeding on birds, questing ticks or human isolates. These findings strengthen the hypothesis that the population structure and evolutionary biology of tick‐borne pathogens are shaped by their host associations and the movement patterns of these hosts.

Original language	English
Article number	485-501
Pages (from-to)	485-501
Number of pages	17
Journal	Molecular Ecology
Volume	29
Issue number	3
Early online date	09 Jan 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15336
Publication status	Published - 01 Feb 2020

Keywords

international
Borrelia garinii
host-parasite interactions
Lyme borreliosis
migration
ticks
birds
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Norte, A. C., Margos, G., Becker, N. S., Ramos, J. A., Nuncio, M. S., Fingerle, V., Araujo, P. M., Adamik, P., Alivizatos, H., Barba, E., Barrientos, R., Cauchard, L., Csorgo, T., Diakou, A., Dingemanse, N. J., Doligez, B., Dubiec, A., Eeva, T., Flaisz, B., ... de Carvalho, I. L. (2020). Host dispersal shapes the population structure of a tick-borne bacterial pathogen. Molecular Ecology, 29(3), 485-501. Article 485-501. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15336

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