bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/670315; this version posted June 13, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. The phylogenetic range of bacterial and viral pathogens of vertebrates Liam P. Shaw1,2,a, Alethea D. Wang1,3,a, David Dylus4,5,6, Magda Meier1,7, Grega Pogacnik1, Christophe Dessimoz4,5,6,8,9, Francois Balloux1 aCo-first authors Affiliations: 1 UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK; 2 Nuffield Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK; 3 Canadian University Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 4 Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 5 Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 6 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Génopode, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 7 Genetics and Genomic Medicine, University College London Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, United Kingdom 8 Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution, Department of Genetics Evolution & Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK 9 Department of Computer Science, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK Correspondence: Liam P. Shaw (
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[email protected]) Keywords: Host Range; Host Jumps; Emerging Infectious Diseases; Phylogenetics; Zoonotic diseases bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/670315; this version posted June 13, 2019.