Trypanosomes infection, endosymbionts, and host preferences in tsetse flies (<i>Glossina</i> spp.) collected from Akagera park region, Rwanda: A correlational xenomonitoring study.

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"Funding This study was supported by the 10.13039/100000200United States Agency for International Development, as part of the Feed the Future initiative, under the CGIAR Fund, award number BFS G-11–00002, and the predecessor fund The Food Security and Crisis Mitigation II grant, award number EEM-G-00–04-00013. The funder supported the data collection phase I of this work. Rwanda Dairy Development Project, funded by the 10.13039/100008687International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)—project ID: 2000001195 through Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Board for field support (phase II data collection) and laboratory facilities. The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), through a Dissertation Research Internship Programme (DRIP) (Postgraduate Training | icipe - International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology), Fellowship to RGS. All the molecular work and sequencing were conducted under this fellowship. This fellowship also received financial support from the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the 10.13039/100011259Deutsche Gesellschaft fu¨r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) ICTDL Project Contract Number 81235250 and Project Number 18.7860.2–001.00. The funders are not involved in any step from the study design to the decision to submit the article for publication. Similarly, the views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the donors."