Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Parasite contingency loci and the evolution of host specificity: Simple sequence repeats mediate Bartonella adaptation to a wild rodent host
R. Rodriguez-Pastor, N. Knossow, N. Shahar…·H. Hawlena
This study shows that simple sequence repeats in Bartonella bacteria drive adaptation to specific rodent hosts through frameshift mutations in adhesin genes.