Dung beetles and fecal helminth transmission: patterns, mechanisms and questions

Biodiversity decreases disease through predictable changes in host community competence

(2013) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   NATURE

Tropical Plant–Herbivore Networks: Reconstructing Species Interactions Using DNA Barcodes

(2013) Carlos García-Robledo et al.   PLoS One

Species diversity reduces parasite infection through cross-generational effects on host abundance

(2012) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY

Parasite transmission in complex communities: Predators and alternative hosts alter pathogenic infections in amphibians

(2012) Sarah A. Orlofske et al.   ECOLOGY

Trait-dependent response of dung beetle populations to tropical forest conversion at local and regional scales

(2012) Elizabeth Nichols et al.   ECOLOGY

Living fast and dying of infection: host life history drives interspecific variation in infection and disease risk

(2012) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A Comparison of Dung Beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Attraction to Native and Exotic Mammal Dung

(2012) Sean D. Whipple et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Role of dung beetle feeding mechanisms in limiting the suitability of species as hosts for the nematodeSpirocerca lupi

(2012) C. A. DU TOIT et al.   MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY

Pangloss revisited: a critique of the dilution effect and the biodiversity-buffers-disease paradigm

(2012) S. E. RANDOLPH et al.   PARASITOLOGY

A Research Agenda for Helminth Diseases of Humans: Social Ecology, Environmental Determinants, and Health Systems

(2012) Andrea Gazzinelli et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

A Research Agenda for Helminth Diseases of Humans: Intervention for Control and Elimination

(2012) Roger K. Prichard et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

A Research Agenda for Helminth Diseases of Humans: The Problem of Helminthiases

(2012) Sara Lustigman et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Effect of dung burial by the dung beetle Bubas bison on numbers and viability of Cryptosporidium oocysts in cattle dung

(2011) Una Ryan et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

Effects of land usage on dung beetle assemblage structure: Kruger National Park versus adjacent farmland in South Africa

(2011) Adrian L. V. Davis et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Who is eating what: diet assessment using next generation sequencing

(2011) FRANCOIS POMPANON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Characterization of Onthophagus sellatus as the major intermediate host of the dog esophageal worm Spirocerca lupi in Israel

(2011) Yuval Gottlieb et al.   VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

Host physiological phenotype explains pathogen reservoir potential

(2010) James Patrick Cronin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Diversity, decoys and the dilution effect: how ecological communities affect disease risk

(2010) P. T. J. Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Mass Drug Administration and Integrated Control for the World's High-Prevalence Neglected Tropical Diseases

(2009) PJ Hotez   CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

Co-declining mammals and dung beetles: an impending ecological cascade

(2009) E. Nichols et al.   OIKOS

Experimental Evidence for Reduced Rodent Diversity Causing Increased Hantavirus Prevalence

(2009) Gerardo Suzán et al.   PLoS One