High Local Diversity of Trypanosoma in a Common Bat Species, and Implications for the Biogeography and Taxonomy of the T. cruzi Clade

• Veronika M. Cottontail ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Veronika M. Cottontail, C. Miguel Pinto

  Affiliations Institute of Experimental Ecology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

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• Elisabeth K. V. Kalko,

  Affiliations Institute of Experimental Ecology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

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• Iain Cottontail,

  Affiliation kbo-Isar-Amper-Klinikum, Taufkirchen (Vils), Germany

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• Nele Wellinghausen,

  Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Gaertner & Colleagues Laboratory, Ravensburg, Germany

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• Marco Tschapka,

  Affiliations Institute of Experimental Ecology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

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• Susan L. Perkins,

  Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

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• C. Miguel Pinto

  Contributed equally to this work with: Veronika M. Cottontail, C. Miguel Pinto

  * E-mail: mpinto@amnh.org

  Affiliations Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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