Volume 8, Number 7, July 2002

Research

Ecologic Niche Modeling and Potential Reservoirs for Chagas Disease, Mexico

A. Townsend Peterson,* Victor Sánchez-Cordero,† C. Ben Beard,‡ Janine M. Ramsey§
*Natural History Museum, Lawrence, Kansas, USA; †Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, D.F., México,; ‡Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; §and Centro de Investigaciones sobre Enfermedades Infecciosas (CISEI), Cuernavaca, Morelos, México

Figure 1. Modeled geographic distributions of Neotoma woodrats in mainland Mexico. (A) black = Neotoma fuscipes, red = N. phenax, green = N. mexicana (note that this distribution includes those of other, less widely distributed, species), yellow = N. goldmani, blue = N. palatina, orange = N. angustapalata. (B) red = N. albigula, yellow = N. micropus, green = N. albigula and N. micropus.

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