Volume 8, Number 7—July 2002
Research
Ecologic Niche Modeling and Potential Reservoirs for Chagas Disease, Mexico.
A. Townsend Peterson*
, Victor Sánchez-Cordero†, Charles Ben Beard‡, and Janine M. Ramsey§
, Victor Sánchez-Cordero†, Charles Ben Beard‡, and Janine M. Ramsey§Table
Distribution of the six species of the protracta complex and nine species of Neotoma found in mainland Mexicoa
| Distribution % of triatomine overlapping Neotoma |
||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N. phenax | N. palatina | N. micropus | N. mexicana | N. lepida | N. goldmani | N. fuscipes | N. angustapalata | N. albigula | n | |
| Triatoma barberi |
0.0 |
2.5 |
45.1 |
98.4 |
0.0 |
0.1 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
30.0 |
86 |
| T. sinaloensis |
95.5 |
0.0 |
50.8 |
51.5 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
9 |
| T. peninsularis |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
9.0 |
93.8 |
0.0 |
82.0 |
0.0 |
1.7 |
9 |
| T. p. woodi |
0.0 |
0.0 |
94.6 |
50.0 |
0.0 |
33.3 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
96.1 |
7 |
| T. p. protracta |
4.4 |
0.0 |
6.9 |
9.2 |
24.4 |
0.0 |
39.3 |
0.0 |
14.1 |
13 |
| T. p. zacatecensis |
0.0 |
0.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
0.0 |
24.3 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
100.0 |
9 |
| Points available | 31 | 5 | 69 | 103 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 156 | |
aShown in bold are Neotoma species independently identified as hosts for particular Triatoma species (1). Distributions are to the highest confidence interval.
