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.