Pathogen contingency loci and the evolution of host specificity: Simple sequence repeats mediate Bartonella adaptation to a wild rodent host

• Ruth Rodríguez-Pastor ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ruth Rodríguez-Pastor, Nadav Knossow

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Jacob Blaustein Center for Scientific Cooperation, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

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• Nadav Knossow ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ruth Rodríguez-Pastor, Nadav Knossow

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

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• Naama Shahar,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

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• Adam Z. Hasik,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  Affiliation Jacob Blaustein Center for Scientific Cooperation, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

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• Daniel E. Deatherage,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Ricardo Gutiérrez,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Reference Center for Bacteriology, Costa Rican Institute for Research and Teaching in Nutrition and Health (Inciensa), Cartago, Costa Rica, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis, West Indies

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• Shimon Harrus,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

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• Luis Zaman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Richard E. Lenski,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Genetics, and Immunology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

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• Jeffrey E. Barrick ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jbarrick@cm.utexas.edu (JEB); hadashaw@bgu.ac.il (HH)

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0888-7358

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• Hadas Hawlena

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jbarrick@cm.utexas.edu (JEB); hadashaw@bgu.ac.il (HH)

  Affiliation Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0634-2920

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