A Map Shows the Global Hot Spots of Rodent Reservoir Diversity (IMAGE)

University of Georgia

A Map Shows the Global Hot Spots of Rodent Reservoir Diversity

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A map shows the global hot spots of rodent reservoir diversity (A) and 150 novel reservoir species predicted by the models to be in the 90th percentile probability of harboring one or more undiscovered zoonoses (B). In both panels A and B, warmer colors are the overlapping geographical ranges of multiple species. Panel B also outlines (black and maroon) the geographic ranges of three species with the highest probability (about 70 percent) of being undiscovered zoonotic reservoirs.

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