Cave-dwelling bats as hosts of Trypanosoma livingstonei: Evidence from peri-domestic roosts in southeastern Nigeria

• Elijah Sunday Okwuonu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology and Environmental Biology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

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• Henry Ekene Nnabuife,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Parasitology Division, National Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI) Vom, Plateau State, Nigeria

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• Benneth Chigozie Obitte,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Small Mammal Conservation Organization (SMACON), Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

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• Oskar Werb,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Iroro Tanshi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Small Mammal Conservation Organization (SMACON), Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Tigga Kingston,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior, School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Ikem Chris Okoye,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Zoology and Environmental Biology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

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• Joshua Kamani,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Parasitology Division, National Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI) Vom, Plateau State, Nigeria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1133-2281

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• Juliane Schaer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: schaerju@hu-berlin.de

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Biology, Muni University, Arua, Uganda, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6714-5771

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