Mating strategy is determinant of Adenovirus prevalence in European bats

Federica Rossetto; Maria Iglesias-Caballero; H. Christoph Liedtke; Ivan Gomez-Mestre; Jose M. Berciano; Gonzalo Pérez-Suárez; Oscar de Paz; Juan E. Echevarría; Inmaculada Casas; Javier Juste

At individual level and for the three species considered, the complete models were used 169 since no model was selected by AIC (∆AIC < 3). The GLMM analysis revealed a significantly 170 higher AdVs presence for males (z= 2.067, p=0.039) in N. lasiopterus (Fig 3A) , and a trend 171 towards higher AdVs prevalence for individuals with smaller forearm (Fig 3B) When analyzing the effect on the AdVs presence of within-species variance in traits, we 229 found that the site of capture explains an important part of the variance of all models suggesting 230 an underlying general pattern across species and supporting the contact-rate hypothesis. This 231 trend is particularly clear for Pipistrellus pygmaeus, whose sampling localities are more 232 widespread along the Iberian Peninsula than those for Nyctalus lasiopterus and P. kuhlii (Fig 4) . Species with fewer than 10 samples were eliminated from the matrix and from the phylogeny.