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Voles can reach high densities with multiannual population fluctuations of large amplitude, and they are at the base of predator communities in Northern Eurasia and Northern America. This status places them at the heart of management conflicts wherein crop protection and health concerns are often raised against conservation issues. Here, a 20‐year...
Blood pathogens may be harmful for birds and thus, represent a potential threat for some populations. To date, only few data are available on the prevalence of hematozoans in the Red Kite, a raptor endemic to the Western Palearctic listed as Near Threatened within its global range. Here, we report the first screening of haemosporidian parasites in...
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Human alveolar echinococcosis caused by infection with Echinococcus multilocularis is one of the most potentially pathogenic helminthic zoonoses. Transmission occurs involving wildlife cycles typically between fox and small mammal intermediate hosts. In the late 1980s/early 1990s a large focus of human AE was identified in poor upland ag...
Many rodents, including most populations of arctic lemmings (genus Dicrostonyx and Lemmus), have cyclic population dynamics. Among the numerous hypotheses which have been proposed and tested to explain this typical characteristic of some terrestrial vertebrate communities, trophic interactions have often been presented as the most likely drivers of...
Many rodents, including most populations of arctic lemmings (genus Dicrostonyx and Lemmus), have cyclic population dynamics. Among the numerous hypotheses which have been proposed and tested to explain this typical characteristic of some terrestrial vertebrate communities, trophic interactions have often been presented as the most likely drivers of...
Although bats are increasingly recognised as potential reservoir hosts of human zoonotic pathogens, bacteria in bats are still poorly studied. To investigate the DNA faecal prevalence of the bacterium Anaplasma phagocytophilum , we sampled 23 lesser horseshoe bat ( Rhinolophus hipposideros ) maternity colonies located in buildings (churches, barns)...
Studying elusive species of conservation concern might be difficult for technical and ethical reasons. However, censuses can be based on the observation of activity indices. When coupled to non-invasive genetic methods this approach can provide extremely precise information about population size, individual movements and diseases. However, the desi...
Evolution and dispersion history on Earth of organisms can best be studied through biological markers in molecular epidemiological studies. The biological diversity of the cestode Echinococcus multilocularis was investigated in different cladistic approaches. First the morphological aspects were explored in connection with its ecology. More recentl...
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High-throughput sequencing technologies now allow for rapid cost-effective surveys of multiple pathogens in many host species including rodents, but it is currently unclear if the organ chosen for screening influences the number and identity of bacteria detected. We used 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing to identify bacterial pathogens in the heart, liv...
Because they can form seasonal mixed-species groups during mating and maternal care, bats are exciting models for studying interspecific hybridization. Myotis myotis and M. blythii are genetically close and morphologically almost identical, but they differ in some aspects of their ecology and life-history traits. When they occur in sympatry, they o...
Because they can form seasonal mixed-species groups during mating and maternal care, bats are exciting models for studying interspecific hybridization. Myotis myotis and M. blythii are genetically close and morphologically almost identical, but they differ in some aspects of their ecology and life-history traits. When they occur in sympatry, they o...
While the lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros) was common in most western and Central Europe, this species endured a dramatic decline in the 1950s–1970s. The causes are thought to comprise the extensive spread of chemical pollutants affecting both bat and prey populations, changes in landscape composition and structure leading to populat...
Echinococcus multilocularis is a cestode that causes human alveolar echinococcosis, a lethal zoonosis of public health concern in central Asia and western China. In the present study, one of 42 Eastern mole voles (Ellobius tancrei) caught in Sary Mogol (Alay valley, southern Kyrgyzstan) presented liver lesions with E. multilocularis from which the...
Toxoplasmosis is a major zoonosis, and its prevention requires multiple approaches due to the complex life-cycle of its causative agent, Toxoplasma gondii. Environmental contamination by oocysts is a key factor in the transmission of T. gondii to both humans and meat-producing animals; however, its spatial and temporal variations are poorly underst...
Wildlife is exposed to natural (e.g., food availability and quality, parasitism) and anthropogenic stressors (e.g., habitat fragmentation, toxicants). Individual variables (e.g., age, gender) affect behaviour and physiology of animals. Together, these parameters can create both great inter-individual variations in health indicators and interpretati...
SUMMARY From continental to regional scales, the zoonosis alveolar echinococcosis (AE) (caused by Echinococcus multilocularis) forms discrete patches of endemicity within which transmission hotspots of much larger prevalence may occur. Since the late 80s, a number of hotspots have been identified in continental Asia, mostly in China, wherein the ec...
Recent studies have shown that parasitic infections in aquatic animals may be related to environmental pollution. However, to our knowledge, this link has received little attention in terrestrial ecosystems. Thus, the aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that pollution by trace metals (TM) influences prevalence to bacterial infection transm...
The destruction and fragmentation of habitats due to anthropogenic land use changes have led to the decline of numerous species by reducing the size and the connectivity of the remaining local populations and so contributing to their isolation. The impact of habitat fragmentation can be modeled using landscape graphs, which have become a popular to...
Rapport de recherche pour la Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité.
Rapport de recherche pour le Conseil Régional de Franche-Comté.
Body condition and somatic indices are widely used in ecology as estimators of wild animal health status, because they are hypothesized to be representatives of individual health and fitness. The biological (age, gender, sexual activity…) and environmental (food availability, habitat quality…) factors influencing these indices, when used as in situ...
The lesser horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus hipposideros, was formerly widespread in north-western Europe, but has undergone a dramatic decline from the 1960s. Ecological disturbances, largely due to human intervention, have been related to this decline. Habitat loss and environmental contamination by chemical substances are regularly cited as being the...
Body condition and somatic indices are widely used in ecology as estimators of wild animal health status, because they are hypothesized to be representatives of individual health and fitness. The potential confounding factors influencing these indices, when used as in situ markers of toxicity, are however poorly known. The aims of this study were t...
The lesser horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus hipposideros was formerly widespread and quite common in north-western Europe, but has undergone a dramatic decline from the 1960s. The main hypothesis for this decline is a change of habitat quality. Recent works have stressed the importance of good connection between roosts and foraging areas by tree lines an...
Caractérisation de la connectivité des habitats et distribution du petit rhinolophe en Franche-Comté. Le petit rhinolophe (Rhinolophus hipposideros) est une espèce de chauve-souris qui était autrefois communément répandue dans le nord ouest de l’Europe. Sa distribution a connu une réduction spectaculaire lors des 50 dernières années (Motte and Libo...
Knowledge of the factors affecting the presence of Toxoplasma gondii in wildlife is limited. Here we analyse which local landscape characteristics are associated with the presence of toxoplasmosis in wild boar, Sus scrofa, on the island of Corsica, France. Meat juice samples from 1399 wild boars collected during two hunting seasons were tested for...
The aim of this study was to analyse the spatio-temporal dynamics of Toxoplasma gondii infection in long-term monitoring of domestic cats (8-15 years) in three populations living in rural France. Overall seroprevalence was 52.7% (modified agglutination test > or =1:40). Incidence was 0.26-0.39 seroconversions/cat per year, and the estimated rate of...
In urban areas, there may be a high local risk of zoonosis due to high densities of stray cat populations. In this study, soil contamination by oocysts of Toxoplasma gondii was searched for, and its spatial distribution was analysed in relation to defecation behaviour of cats living in a high-density population present in one area of Lyon (France)....
We studied the dynamic of the transmission of a parasite with complex life-cycle, Toxoplasma gondii, in contrasted environments. First, the dynamic of the parasite transmission was studied in an urban area where a population of domestic cats (Felis catus) live at high density. Our results raise the hypothesis that the parasite transmission could oc...
Serum samples from 218 small mammals trapped in forest and grassland in the Ardennes region (North-eastern France) were tested for antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii. Using the modified agglutination test, positive results were found in 4/92 Apodemus sp., 3/64 Clethrionomys glareolus, 0/26 Microtus agrestis, 0/4 Micromys minutus, 3/5 Sorex sp., 2/9 Ar...
Toxoplasma gondii is largely transmitted to definitive felid hosts through predation. Not all prey species represent identical risks of infection for cats because of differences in prey susceptibility, exposure and/or lifespan. Previously published studies have shown that prevalence in rodent and lagomorph species is positively correlated with body...
Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite that infects humans and animal species worldwide. The relative importance of each potential transmission route in the complex life cycle of this coccidia is largely unknown, due to the lack of studies taking into account all routes simultaneously. In this study, we analyzed the transmission of T. gondii in...
Ce travail a porté sur l'étude de la dynamique de la transmission d'un parasite à cycle complexe, Toxoplasma gondii, dans des milieux contrastés. Dans une première partie, la dynamique de la transmission du parasite est étudiée dans un site urbain abritant une population très dense de chats domestiques (Felis catus). Nos travaux permettent de poser...
