Genetic and spatial characterization of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) population in the area stretching between the Eastern and Dinaric Alps and its relationship with rabies and canine distemper dynamics

• Bianca Zecchin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bianca Zecchin, Marco De Nardi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: bzecchin@izsvenezie.it

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), Legnaro, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9566-6531

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• Marco De Nardi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bianca Zecchin, Marco De Nardi

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: SAFOSO, Liebefeld, Switzerland

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), Legnaro, Italy

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• Pierre Nouvellet,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Cristiano Vernesi,

  Roles Software, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM), San Michele all'Adige, Italy

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• Massimiliano Babbucci,

  Roles Software, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science (BCA), University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy

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• Barbara Crestanello,

  Roles Software, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM), San Michele all'Adige, Italy

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• Zoltán Bagó,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Institute for Veterinary Disease Control, Mödling, Austria

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• Tomislav Bedeković,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Virology, Croatian Veterinary Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

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• Peter Hostnik,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Virology Unit, Veterinary Faculty, Institute of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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• Adelaide Milani,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), Legnaro, Italy

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• Christl Ann Donnelly,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling Methodology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0195-2463

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• Luca Bargelloni,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science (BCA), University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy

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• Monica Lorenzetto,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Epidemiology, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), Legnaro, Italy

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• Carlo Citterio,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation SCT2 Belluno, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), Belluno, Italy

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• Federica Obber,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation SCT2 Belluno, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), Belluno, Italy

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• Paola De Benedictis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), Legnaro, Italy

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• Giovanni Cattoli

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Current address: Animal Production and Health Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Division, International Atomic Energy Agency, Seibersdorf, Austria

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), Legnaro, Italy

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