Affiliations
1 Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108.
2 School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart Australia 7001.
3 Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
4 Department of Biology, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
5 Universidad Regional Amazónica IKIAM, Km 7 Vía Muyuna, Napo, Ecuador
6Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
7 Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Montrose, CO 81401 USA.
8 Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA.
9 Spatial Epidemiology Lab (SpELL), Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP160/12 50, av. FD Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium.
10 Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
11 School of Life Sciences and Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV47AL, United Kingdom.
12 Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, 55108
*Nick.FountainJones@utas.edu.au
Key words: Feline immunodeficiency virus, Mountain lion, Selection, Perturbation effect, Phylogenetic diversity, Puma, Puma concolor
Authorship statement: NFJ conducted the analysis and wrote the initial draft of the paper to which all authors contributed. KL and MA studied the puma populations in the field and provided the blood samples. SK, DT, PS, RG and SV collected virus and host genetic data. SD, GB, MC and XD contributed to the phylogenetic and transmission tree analyses. MG contributed to the spatial analysis. MEC, SV, KC, CF and SC conceived of the project.