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Genetics and evolution of the black rat (Rattus rattus), reservoir of plague in Madagascar
Ph. D. thesis

The black rat (Rattus rattus) is the only reservoir of plague (Yersinia pestis infection) in Madagascar. 
This thesis permitted to characterise the colonisation scheme, resistance to plague in R. rattus and study 
the selection exerted by pathogens on their hosts :

         Selective pressure exerted by pathogens may lead to fast evolutionary changes in the black rat in
         Madagascar, which has populations resistant to plague in the central highlands area, where plague
         has been endemic for a century, while populations of the lowland area, where the disease is absent,
         are susceptible.

The table of contents and the report (with the associated articles) of the thesis are attached below along
with the english and french abstracts.

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Keywords: adaptation /  AFLP (Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism) /  bacteria /  black ratcandidate genecolonisation historycommensal rodent /  experimental infection /  flea /  gene /  host /  host-parasite interactioninvasionMadagascarorganismpathogenphylogeographyplaguepopulationpopulation genetics /  population genomics /  Rattus rattusreservoir /  resistance /  selection /  Yersinia pestis /  zoonosis /  ,

Access to generic themes covered: biological objectbio-process-mechanismconceptdiscipline or approachhabitatlocationMethod and techniquephenomenontaxon

Navigation suggestion:Phylogeography of the black rat (Rattus rattus) colonization in Madagascar (221)  
Source:Tollenaere, C. (2009)Génétique et évolution du rat noir, Rattus rattus, réservoir de la peste à Madagascar. Ph. D. Thesis, Montpellier II Univ., December 2009, 208 p.
Knowledge: no 033 , type: monograph , posted: 2010-05-17 , proposed by:Tollenaere, Charlotte (IRD-CBGP)

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